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STANDARD  CATALOG 


BIOGRAPHY  SECTION 


COMPILED  BY 

CORINNE  BACON 


THE  H.  W.  WILSON  COMPANY 

NEW  YORK 
1919 


STANDARD  CATALOG   SERIES 


STANDARD  CATALOG 

BIOGRAPHY  SECTION 


ONE  THOUSAND  TITLES  OF  THE  MOST  REPRESENTATIVE, 
INTERESTING  AND  USEFUL  BIOGRAPHIES 


COMPILED  BY 

CORINNE  BACON 


THE  H.  W.  WILSON  COMPANY 

NEW  YORK 
1919 


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PREFACE 

Scope.  This  section  of  the  Standard  Catalog  contains  about  1000  titles  of 
the  most  representative,  interesting  and  useful  biographies,  with  descriptive  and 
evaluative  notes.  Some  biographies  which  few  people  care  to  read  thru  have 
been  included  because  of  their  value  in  reference  work.  A  few  biographies  hardly 
up  to  standard  have  been  included  because  of  the  importance  of  the  subject  of 
the  biography.  The  compiler  has  tried  to  consider  all  biographies  appearing  up 
to  June  1st,  1919. 

Arrangement.  Most  of  the  titles  listed  are  classed  in  920-928,  Collective 
biography,  or  92,  Individual  biography ;  but  lives  of  artists,  sculptors,  musicians 
and  actors  have  been  classed  with  the  700s,  Fine  arts,  altho  listed  here.  Librarians 
are  asked  to  bear  in  mind  that  many  so-called  "lives"  of  artists,  musicians  and 
writers  partake  more  of  the  nature  of  criticism  than  of  biography  and  will  be 
found  classed  in  the  Fine  arts  and  the  Literature  sections  of  the  Standard  Cata- 
log, rather  than  in  the  Biography  section.  Lives  of  Jesus,  232,  have  been  in- 
cluded by  request.  Lives  of  Negroes  and  of  Indians  of  today  have  been  classed 
in  92  rather  than  in  the  numbers  assigned  by  the  Decimal  classification.  Lives 
of  combatants  in  the  European  war,  limited  in  scope  chiefly  to  the  war,  will  be 
included  in  the  History  section  under  European  war.  The  scheme  of  arrange- 
ment will  be  found  on  preface  page  v.  In  Individual  biography,  the  entries  have 
been  made  under  the  names  of  the  persons  written  about,  in  order  not  to  separate 
two  or  more  lives  of  the  same  individual. 

Index.  A  partial  index  of  authors'  names  (p.  77)  includes  the  authors  of  all 
biographies  classed  in  920-928,  232  and  the  700s.  It  has  seemed  unnecessary  to 
index  the  92  section  by  author,  as  it  is  arranged  alphabetically  by  names  of  biog- 
raphees. 

Method  of  Compilation.  Questionnaires  were  sent  out  to  a  number  of 
librarians,  before  beginning  the  work,  dealing  with  its  scope,  form,  and  the  data 
to  be  included.  With  these  suggestions  to  guide  her,  in  addition  to  her  own 
experience  in  public  libraries,  large  and  small,  and  in  one  state  library,  the  com- 
piler formed  her  plan  of  work.  No  attempt  was  made  to  go  over  in  detail  the 
ground  so  carefully  covered  by  the  American  Library  Association  up  to  1912, 
altho  some  of  the  books  published  prior  to  1912  and  not  included  in  the  A.  L.  A. 
Catalog  and  Supplement  have  been  listed  at  the  suggestion  of  collaborators.  The 
chief  sources  used  for  the  older  books  were  the  A.  L.  A.  Catalog  of  1904  and  its 
Supplement  (1904-1911)  and  the  classified  catalog  of  the  Carnegie  Library  of 
Pittsburgh.  Beginning  with  1912,  the  compiler  checked  such  titles  as  might  be 
included  in  a  library  of  10,000  volumes,  in  the  bulletins  of  the  Carnegie  Library 
of  Pittsburgh,  the  Cleveland  Public  Library,  the  Pratt  Institute  Library,  the 
St.  Louis  Public  Library,  and  the  New  York  Branch  Library  News.  During  the 
past  year,  the  Bulletin  of  the  Brooklyn  Public  Library  has  also  been  checked. 
These  bulletins  were  clipped  and  mounted  on  cards,  together  with  material  from 
a  number  of  other  sources,  including  bulletins  of  library  commissions,  notably 
that  of  Wisconsin,  the  New  York  Best  Books,  the  Booklist,  and  two  lists  entitled 
"Fifty  biographies  for  a  small  library,"  compiled  by  Mrs.  Julia  S.  Harron,  and 
"Lives  and  letters,  a  selected  and  annotated  list,"  compiled  by  the  Carnegie 
Library  of  Pittsburgh.  The  file  of  book  reviews  accumulated  by  the  Book  Re- 
view Digest  was  constantly  used.  In  this  way  a  tentative  list  of  some  1,300  titles 
was  made  and  the  galley  proofs  were  sent  to  a  few  librarians  and  to  a  teacher 
of  art  for  criticism  and  suggestion. 

Acknowledgments.  The  compiler  wishes  to  acknowledge  her  indebtedness 
to  the  following  librarians  and  editors  who  checked  up  the  entire  Biography  sec- 
tion and  gave  much  helpful  advice:    Mr.  Hiller  C.  Wellman  of  the  City  Library 


Association  of  Springfield,  Massachusetts;  Miss  Louise  Hinsdale  of  the  East 
Orange  (New  Jersey)  Public  Library;  Miss  Mary  L.  Jones  of  the  Los  Angeles 
County  Free  Library;  Miss  Mary  Eastwood,  editor  of  New  York  Best  Books 
and  instructor  in  the  New  York  Library  School ;  Mrs.  Julia  S.  Harron,  formerly 
connected  with  the  New  York  Best  Books  and  with  the  Booklist,  now  editor  of 
the  Cleveland  Open  Shelf;  Miss  Mary  Katharine  Reely,  present  editor  of  the 
Book  Review  Digest,  and  Miss  Margaret  Jackson,  instructor  in  the  New  York 
City  Library  School,  whose  work  on  the  Century  Cyclopedia  of  Names  and  as 
editor  of  the  Book  Review  Digest  has  given  her  a  wide  knowledge  of  men,  women 
and  books.  Valuable  advice  on  the  art  biography  was  given  by  Miss  Helen 
Jackson,  instructor  in  art  in  Miss  Hills'  School  in  Philadelphia. 

The  final  decision  as  to  inclusion  or  exclusion  of  any  title  has  necessarily  been 
made  by  the  editor  in  accordance  with  the  weight  of  evidence.  Inasmuch  as  the 
selection  has  been  made  in  this  manner,  the  cooperators  should  not  be  held  in- 
dividually responsible  for  the  result. 

Data  Given.  The  attempt  has  been  made  to  enter  biographers  and  biog- 
raphees  under  the  more  familiar  forms  of  their  names.  Pretty  full  titles  have 
been  given,  followed  by  number  of  volumes  when  more  than  one,  edition,  illustra- 
tions (when  important),  date  (latest  copyright  date  being  given  when  easily  ascer- 
tainable), publisher  and  price.  The  prices  have  been  taken  in  the  main  from  the 
Publisher's  Trade  List  Annual  of  1918,  tho  a  few  prices  are  of  more  recent  date. 
Series  notes  have  been  given  when  important.  A  few  out-of-print  books  have 
knowingly  been  listed  and  these  are  plainly  indicated.  Almost  every  title  is 
annotated.  A  large  number  of  these  notes  have  been  taken  from  library  bulletins, 
the  Booklist,  the  Book  Review  Digest,  and  other  of  the  sources  used  in  selection. 
Mr.  G.  B.  Utley,  Secretary  of  the  American  Library  Association,  has  kindly  per- 
mitted the  use  of  notes  from  the  A.  L.  A.  Catalog  and  Supplement.  Class  num- 
bers have  been  given  after  each  entry,  because  the  same  linotype  slugs  will  be 
used  later  in  the  dictionary  catalog. 

Selection.  The  selection  has  been  made  with  both  the  small  and  large 
library  in  mind,  some  titles  being  listed  here  that  will  probably  be  dropped  from 
the  10,000  volume  dictionary  catalog.  Scholarly  and  expensive  books  have  some- 
times been  included  in  a  note,  but  have  often  been  listed  because  of  their  im- 
portance. Some  valuable  books  have  been  omitted  because  they  are  not  ordinarily 
called  for  in  a  library  of  10,000  volumes.  A  few  critical  librarians  will  perhaps 
note  the  omission  of  some  "books  that  no  gentleman's  library  should  be  without." 
Others  will  note  the  inclusion  of  titles  in  their  opinion  too  expensive  or  too  "high- 
brow" for  the  smaller  libraries.  The  compiler  has  tried  to  list  not  the  ideally  best 
books  without  regard  to  expense,  availability  or  limitation  of  interest  to  a  few 
scholars,  but  the  best  books  that  the  average  intelligent  frequenter  of  our  public 
libraries  will  actually  read  or  study.  In  so  doing  she  has  assumed  that  the  general 
level  of  intelligence  is  rising,  and  that  a  greater  number  of  people  than  before  the 
war,  including  our  new  women  voters,  are  interested  in  worth  while  books. 

Uses.  It  is  hoped  that  this  Standard  Catalog  will  be  of  use  to  librarians  as 
a  buying  list,  in  reference  work,  and  as  a  recommended  list  of  the  best  reading 
for  users  of  our  public  libraries ;  also  that  it  will  meet  the  demand  of  the  reader 
for  a  printed  catalog  that  he  may  take  home. 

Standard  Catalog  Series.  This  Catalog  will  later  form  part  of  a  dictionary 
catalog  of  10,000  of  the  best  books  for  adults  on  all  subjects  that  should  be  repre- 
sented in  a  public  library  of  that  size.  As  now  printed,  it  probably  includes  more 
volumes  than  will  be  listed  in  the  final  Catalog.  This  section  is  issued  in  advance 
of  the  full  Catalog  in  response  to  requests  from  public  libraries  and  library  com- 
missions. 

The  Standard  Catalog  Series  now  includes  the  Children's  Catalog,  issued 
in  three  sizes,  with  its  1918  Supplement — (1919  Supplement  will  be  issued  in  the 
early  fall) — the  Sociology  section  of  the  Standard  Catalog  (second  printing), 
and  the  Biography  section  of  the  same.  The  Fiction  section  will  be  the  next  one 
issued. 

.  June  30,  1919.  Corinne  Bacon. 


BIOGRAPHY 

Both  collective  and  individual  biography  of  artists, 
musicians  and  actors  are  classed  in  the  700s.  A  par- 
tial author  index  will  be  found  on  page  77. 

920        Collective  biography  in  general 
920.7     Biography  of  women 

922  Biography  of  religion 

923  Biography  of  sociology 

925  Biography  of  science 

926  Biography  of  useful  arts 
928       Biography  of  literature 

92  Individual  biography 

Exclusive  of  artists,  musicians  and  actors. 
Arranged  alphabetically  by  the  names  of  the 
biographies   and   not   indexed. 

232        Lives  of  Jesus  Christ 

709.92    Collective  biography  of  artists 

730.92    Biography  of  sculptors 

759        Biography  of  painters 

759.1  American  painters 

759.2  English  painters 

759.3  German  painters 

759.4  French  painters 

759.5  Italian  painters 

759.6  Spanish  painters 
759.9    Other  painters 

780.92    Biography  of  musicians 
792        Biography  of  actors 


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Biography 


920  Collective  biography 

Collective  biography  is  classified  (920-928) 
and  arranged  alphabetically  by  authors  under 
each  class  number.  Books  for  reading  and  ref- 
erence appear  in  the  same  alphabet. 

About   biography 

Burr,  Mrs  Anna  Robeson  (Brown) 

The  autobiography.    '09  Houghton  $2.50 

920 
"A    comparative    and     critical    study    of     the 
origin,    motives,    ideals    and     psychological-   im- 
portance of  the  autobiography."      A.   L.  A.  sup. 

Dunn,  Waldo  Hilary 

English  biography.  '17  Dutton  $2  920 
"The  first  book  in  English  to  make  a  detailed 
study  of  the  origin  and  evolution  of  English 
biography  as  distinguished  from  autobiography, 
which  has  received  a  like  handling  from  Mrs 
Anna  Robeson  Burr  ('The  autobiography,' 
Houghton,  $2.50).  The  treatment  is  not  only 
historical,  but  includes  some  valuable  defini- 
tions of  the  function  and  place  of  biography  in 
letters,  and  its  relation  to  other  subjects,  notably 
fiction,  and  also  some  excellent  critical  material 
on  specific  biographies.  The  author  is  [19 16] 
professor  of  the  English  language  and  literature 
at  the  University   of  Wooster."      Cleveland 

The  appendix  contains  Biographical  compila- 
tions_  in  Latin;  Biographical  compilations  in 
English;  English  autobiographies;  Shakespeare 
in  biography 

Lee,  Sir  Sidney  Lazarus 
Principles     of     biography:     the       Leslie 
Stephen  lecture  delivered  in  the  Senate 
house,  Cambridge,  on  13  May,  1911.    '11 
Putnam  60c  920 

General  works 

Benson,  Arthur  Christopher 

Leaves  of  the  tree.  '11  Putnam  $1.50  920 
"Portraits  in  finished  style,  drawn  from  life, 
of  the  personalities  of  Henry  Sidgwick,  J.  K. 
Stephens,  Frederick  Myers,  Henry  Bradshaw, 
Charles  Kingsley,  Matthew  Arnold,  Professor 
Alfred  Newton,  and  Bishops  Westcott,  Wilkin- 
son, Lightfoot  and  Wordsworth."  N.Y.  state 
lib. 

Birkhead,  Alice 

Heroes   of  modern  Europe.     '13  Crowell 
$2(  920 

"The  figures  from  history  chosen  by  the  au- 
thor as  the  subjects  of  these  sketches  are: 
JLtante;  Lorenzo  the  Magnificent;  Savonarola: 
Martin  Luther;  Charles  the  Fifth;  William  the 
Silent;  Henry  of  Navarre;  Richelieu;  Louis 
XIV;  Peter  the  Great;  Frederick  the  Great; 
Voltaire;  Napoleon;  Mazzini;  Garibaldi; 
Napoleon   III;    Tolstoi."      Book   rev.    digest 

Bolton,  Mrs  Sarah  (Knowles) 

Famous  leaders  among  men.  '94  Crowell 
$1  920 

Contents:  Napoleon  Bonaparte:  Horatio  Nel- 
son; John ,  Bunyan;  Thomas  Arnold;  Wendell 
Phillips;  Henry  Ward  Beecher;  Charles  Kings- 
Brooff"         Sherman;   C-   H-   Spurgeon;  Phillips 

Lives  of  poor  boys  who  became  famous. 
85(<  Crowell  $1.50  920 

"Inspiring  examples  of  boys  who  achieved 
success  m  spite  of  obstacles."     A.  L.  A. 


Booth,  William  Stone 

(ed.)    Wonderful   escapes   by   Americans, 
il  '13  Houghton  $2.25  920 

"True  stories  from  various  writers  recounting 
the  capture  of  pioneers  by  Indians,  escapes 
from  Libby  and  Andersonville  prisons,  adven- 
tures in  fighting  fires  and  tornados,  and  other 
thrilling  experiences."      Pratt  quarterly 

Bryce,  James   Bryce,  viscount 
Studies  in  contemporary  biography.     '03 
Macmillan  $3  920 

Beaconsfield,  Dean  Stanley,  Anthony  Trol- 
lope,  J.  R.  Green,  Parnell,  Gladstone,  E.  L. 
Godkin,  E.  A.  Freeman,  Cardinal  Manning, 
Lord  Acton   and    ten   other   character   estimates. 

Bullard,  Frederic  Lauriston 

Famous  war  correspondents,   il   '14  Little 
$2.50  920 

"Biographical  sketches  of  eminent  war  corre- 
spondents so  arranged  as  to  form  practically  a 
history  of  this  branch  of  journalism."  Pratt 
quarterly 

"Twelve  timely  and  stirring  narratives  of 
such  notable  men  as  Sir  William  Howard  Rus- 
sell, Archibald  Forbes,  Frederick  Villiers,  G.  W. 
Steevens,  James  Creelman,  etc.,  with  two  chap- 
ters on  the  'covering'  of  the  Civil  and  Spanish- 
American  wars.  Seventeen  portraits,  index." 
N.Y.  state  lib. 

Burton,  Margaret  Ernestine 

Comrades    in    service,    il    '15    Missionary 
educ.  60c;  pa  40c  920 

Contents:  A  servant  of  the  city,  Jacob  A. 
Riis;  Pilgrim  of  India,  Chundra  Lela;  Man  of 
the  mountains,  J.  A.  Burns;  The  Frances  Wil- 
lard  of  Japan,  Kaji  Yajima;  Man  with  a  mes- 
sabe,  Dwight  L.  Moody;  A  beloved  physician, 
Li  Bi  Cu;  Pacific  pioneer,  Thomas  Crosby; 
Bishop  of  the  Niger,  Samuel  Adjai  Crowther; 
Believer  in  black  folk,  Frances  Jackson  Cop- 
pin;  Ambassador  in  chains,  Syngman  Rhee; 
Story  of  a  friend,  Grace  H.  Dodge. 

"Eleven  biographical  sketches,  interestingly 
told,  of  men  and  women  who  have  found  sat- 
isfaction in  serving  as  teachers,  social  workers, 
preachers,  and  doctors.  Useful  in  connection 
with  Sunday  school  classes  or  missionary  study 
classes."     A.   L.  A.  bkl. 

Clodd,  Edward 

Memories,    il  '16  Putnam  $3  920 

"After  giving  us  an  interesting  'Fragment  of 
autobiography,'  Mr  Clodd  devotes  the  rest  of 
his  book  to  sketches  of  his  friends — Grant  Al- 
len, Huxley,  Du  Chaillu,  Mary  H.  Kingsley, 
Meredith,  Gissing,  Andrew  Lang,  Samuel 
Butler      and      many      others.  The      recollec- 

tions are  interspersed  with  letters,  poems,  and 
anecdotes,  and  as  'fireside  talk'  about  a  depart- 
ing generation  they  are  widely  sympathetic  and 
genuinely    pleasant."      Pittsburgh 

"The  writer's  attitude  toward  religion  will 
tend  to  limit  the  book's  appeal."     A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

Elias,  Edith  L. 

In    Georgian    times,    il   '14  Little  $1.25 

920 
Contents:  The  kingship:  George  the  First; 
George  the  Second;  George  the  Third;  George 
the  Fourth.  The  state:  Robert  Walpole,  Earl  of 
Orford;  William  Pitt  the  Elder;  Charles  James 
Fox;  Edmund  Burke;  Warren  Hastings;  Wil- 
liam Pitt  the  Younger;  Henry  Grattan;  George 
Canning.  Army  and  navy:  General  Wolfe; 
Robert,  Lord  Clive;  Horatio,  Lord  Nelson; 
Arthur  Wellesley,  Duke  of  Wellington.  Travel 
and  invention:  Captain  James  Cook;  Mungo 
J^ark;  Sir  Richard  Arkwright;  James  Watt; 
Sir    Humphrey    Davy.        Religion      and    philan- 


STANDARD    CATALOG 


Elias,  Edith  L.— Continued 

thropy:  George  Berkeley,  Bishop  of  Cloyne; 
John  Wesley;  John  Howard;  William  Wilber- 
force.  Painting  and  the  fine  arts:  William  Ho- 
garth;  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds 

In  Victorian  times;  with  some  reference 
also  to  the  times  of  William  IV.  il  '15 
Little  $1.25  920 

Contents:  The  kingship:  William  IV;  Vic- 
toria. The  state:  Lord  Brougham;  Sir  Robert 
Peel;  Lord  Palmerston;  Benjamin  Disraeli; 
Richard  Cobden;  John  Bright;  William  Ewart 
Gladstone;  Charles  Stewart  Parnell.  Empire 
building:  Sir  Henry  Havelock;  Lord  Lawrence; 
General  Charles  George  Gordon;  Cecil  J. 
Rhodes;  Earl  Roberts.  Invention,  discovery,  and 
science;  George  Stephenson;  David  Livingstone; 
Charles  Darwin;  Lord  Lister.  Religion  and 
philanthropy:  John  Henry  Newman,  cardinal; 
Charles  Haddon  Spurgeon;  Antony  Ashley 
Cooper;  Florence  Nightingale.  Fine  arts:  J.  M. 
W.  Turner;  Dante  Gabriel  Rossetti;  G.  F. 
Watts 

Eliot,  Charles  William 

Four  American  leaders.  '06  Amer.  unit, 
assn.  80c  920 

"Brief,  inspiring  addresses  on  those  quali- 
ties and  ideals  of  Franklin,  Washington,  Chan- 
ning  and  Emerson  which  have  influenced  Amer- 
ican life  and  thought."  (N.Y.  state  lib.) 
A.  L.  A.  sup. 

Escott,  Thomas  Hay  Sweet 

Great  Victorians;  memories  and  person- 
alities, il  '16  Scribner  $3.50  920 
"A  pleasant  mixture  of  biographical  details 
and  personal  reminiscences  of  men  ranging  from 
the  Duke  of  Wellington  and  Palmerston  to  Sir 
Henry  Irving  and  Lord  Randolph  Churchill." 
(Nation    [London])    Pratt   quarterly 

Gilbert,  Ariadne 

More  than  conquerors,  il  '14  Century 
$1.35  920 

"Sympathetic  and  intimate  accounts  of  the 
author's  heroes:  Beethoven;  Lamb;  Scott;  Irv- 
ing; Emerson;  Agassiz;  Thackeray;  Livingstone; 
Pasteur;  Brooks;  Booth;  Stevenson;  Saint 
Gaudens;  Lincoln.  Good  material  for  reading 
clubs."    Wis.  bul. 

Higginson,   Thomas   Wentworth 

Contemporaries.     1900   Houghton  $2.25 

920 
Contents:  R.  W.  Emerson;  A.  B.  Alcott; 
Theodore  Parker;  J.  G.  Whittier;  Walt  Whit- 
man; Sidney  Lanier;  An  evening  with  Mrs 
Hawthorne;  Lydia  Maria  Child;  Helen  Jack- 
son ("H.  H.");  John  Holmes;  Thaddeus 
William  Harris;  Visit  to  John  Brown's  house- 
hold in  1859;  W.  L.  Garrison;  Wendell  Phil- 
lips; Charles  Sumner;  Dr  Howe's  anti-slavery 
career;  U.  S.  Grant;  Eccentricities  of  reform- 
ers;   Road   to   England 

Hutton,  Laurence 

Talks  in  a  library  with  Laurence  Hutton, 
recorded  by  Isabel  Moore,  il  '05  Put- 
nam $2.50  920 

"Personal  and  literary  recollections  including 
reminiscences  and  anecdotes  of  Edwin  Booth, 
Henry  Irving,  Joseph  Jefferson,  Alma  Tadema, 
St  Gaudens,  Du  Maurier,  Mark  Twain,  Dickens 
and  many  other  well  known  people."  (N.Y. 
state  lib.)  A.  L.  A.  sup. 

"A  miscellaneous  collection  of  literary  and 
personal  gossip,  a  good  deal  of  which  is  new 
and  most  of  it  decidedly  interesting.  In  a 
general  way  it  tells  the  story  of  Mr  Hutton's 
life,  of  his  first  adventures  in  journalism,  of 
his  warm  friendships  with  actors  and  literary 
people,  and  of  his  wanderings  in  other  lands. 
The  book  is  unusually  rich  in  stories  and  anec- 
dotes."    Pittsburgh 


James,  George  Wharton 

Heroes  of  California,    il  '10  Little  $2.50 

920 

"Interesting  chapters  on  some  of  the  men  to 
whom  California  is  most  indebted.  Accounts 
are  given  of  the  Donner  party,  the  scouts,  the 
pony  express  riders,  the  gold  seekers,  the  rail- 
way builders,  and  the  lesser  heroes  of  com- 
merce and  politics."     A.   L.  A.  sup. 

Leupp,  Francis  Ellington 

National  miniatures.   '18  Knopf  $1.50    920 

"  'These  papers  have  been  appearing  serially 
in  the  Nation  for  the  last  three  years,'  and  have 
been  'prepared  by  one  who  has  passed  the  larger 
part  of  his  mature  life  at  the  national  capital, 
brushing  elbows  almost  daily  with  one  or  an- 
other' of  the  men  of  whom  he  writes.  The> 
consist  of  brief  intimate  glimpses  into  the  per- 
sonality, character  and  motives  of  men  (and 
women)  who  figure  prominently  in  national  is- 
sues. A  few  of  the  personages  the  author  re- 
veals to  us  are:  President  Wilson;  William  J. 
Bryan;  Chief  Justice  White;  Oscar  W.  Under- 
wood; Jeannette  Rankin;  Emma  Goldman;  Wil- 
liam J.  Burns;  Jane  Addams."  Book  rev.  di- 
gest 

"  'Tattler'  is  a  professional  artist,  and  these 
portraits  are  works  of  art.  There  is  a  light- 
ness of  touch  and  withal  a  sureness  that  stamps 
these  'miniatures'  as  quite  worth  while."  Spring- 
field Republican 

McCarthy,  Justin 

Portraits   of  the   'sixties.     '03   Harper  $2 

920 

"Dickens,       Thackeray,      Carlyle,       Tennyson, 

Cardinal     Newman,    and    other    notable    people, 

drawn    from   personal   acquaintance."      A.    L.   A. 

Morris,   Charles 

Heroes    of   progress    in    America,     il     '06 
Lippincott  $1.25  920 

Contents:  Roger  Williams;  John  Eliot;  Wil- 
liam Penn;  James  Oglethorpe;  Benjamin  Frank- 
lin; Patrick  Henry;  Samuel  Adams;  Thomas 
Jefferson;  Robert  Morris;  Alexander  Hamilton; 
John  Adams;  Eli  Whitney;  Robert  Fulton; 
John  Jacob  Astor;  Stephen  Girard;  John  Mar- 
shall; Henry  Clay;  Daniel  Webster;  J.  C. 
Calhoun;  S.  F.  B.  Morse;  C.  W.  Field;  Elias 
Howe;  C.  H.  McCormick;  Charles  Goodyear; 
DeWitt  Clinton;  Horace  Wells;  W.  L.  Garrison; 
Wendell  Phillips;  Charles  Sumner;  Lucretia 
Mott;  E.  C.  Stanton;  S.  B.  Anthony;  Dorothea 
Dix;  George  Peabody;  Peter  Cooper;  Abraham 
Lincoln;  W.  H.  Seward;  J.  G.  Blaine;  Horace 
Greeley;  John  Ericsson;  T.  A.  Edison;  F.  E. 
Willard;  Clara  Barton;  Andrew  Carnegie;  B.  T. 
Washington 

Oliphant,  Mrs  Margaret  Oliphant  (Wilson) 
Makers      of     Florence:      Dante,      Giotto, 
Savonarola,   and  their  city;   il  by  Pro- 
fessor  Delamotte.    '97    Macmillan   $4 

920 

Studies    of    Dante,    Arnolfo,    Giotto,    Ghiberti, 

Donatello,    Brunelleschi,    Agnolo,    Fra    Angelico, 

Antonino,        Savonarola,        Fra        Bartolommeo, 

Michael  Angelo 

Osborn,  Edward  Bolland 

New  Elizabethans:  the  first  selection  of 
the  lives  of  young  men  who  have  fallen 
in  the  Great  war.     '19  Lane  $4  920 

Brief  chronicles  of  the  life  and  work  of 
twenty-five  young  men,  nearly  all  writers,  schol- 
ars, or  _  workers  in  the  arts  who  died  cheerfully 
for  their  country. 

Contents:  Harold  Chapin;  Richard  Moles- 
worth  Dennys;  Charles  Lister;  Anthony  Fred- 
erick Wilding;  Basil  Hallam;  Charles  Hamilton 
Sorley;  Brian  Brooke;  Dixon  Scott;  Robert 
William  Sterling;  Colwyn  and  Roland  Philipps; 
Douglas     Gillespie;     Hugh    and    John    Charlton; 


BIOGRAPHY— Collective 


Osborn,  Edward  Bolland — Continued 

Alan  Seeger;  Harry  Butters;  Donald  Hankey; 
Ivar  Campbell;  Tom  Kettle;  Ronald  Poulton; 
Thomas  Vade-Walpole;  William  Noel  Hodgson; 
Guy   Drummond;   Julian  and   Billy   Grenfell 

Parkman,  Mary  Rosetta 

Heroes  of  today,   il  '17  Century  $1.35    920 

Contents;  The  laird  of  skyland,  John  Muir; 
The  seer  of  Woodchuck  Lodge,  John  Burroughs; 
The  deep-sea  doctor,  Wilfred  Grenfell;  The  cap- 
tain of  his  soul,  Captain  Scott;  A  modern  vik- 
ing, Jacob  Riis;  A  pioneer  of  the  open,  Edward 
L.  Trudeau;  "The  prophet-engineer,"  George  W. 
Goethals;  A  shepherd  of  "the  great  country," 
Bishop  Rowe;  A  hero  of  flight,  Samuel  P. 
Langley;  A  poet-soldier,  Rupert  Brooke;  A  cit- 
izen   of   the   world,   Herbert   C.   Hoover 

"Short  biographies  of  men  who  are  fighting 
'the  unseen  enemies  of  disease  and  pestilence; 
against  the  monster  evils  of  ignorance,  poverty 
and  injustice.'  "      Pratt   quarterly 

Ponsonby,  Arthur,   and   Ponsonby,    Doro- 
thea 
Rebels  and  reformers.     '19  Holt  $1.60 

920 

"We  have  tried  here  to  tell  quite  simply  the 
story  of  the  lives  of  a  dozen  great  men.  There 
are  many  books  about  men  of  action,  but  it  is 
not  so  easy  to  find  any  simple  account  of  men 
who  have  used  their  minds  and  their  pens, 
rather  than  the  sword,  in  their  work  for  the 
betterment  of  their  country  to  which  they  have 
devoted  their  lives."     Introduction 

Quiller-Couch,  Sir  Arthur  Thomas 

Roll  call  of  honor;  a  new  book  of  golden 
deeds.    '13    Sully  920 

"Nine    biographical     sketches      of     men      and 
women   whose   devotion  to    some   great   cause   or 
idea  has   won   for  them   the  position   of  national 
heroes."      Pratt   quarterly 
At  present   out  of  print 

Russell,  George  William  Erskine 

Portraits  of  the  'seventies,  il  '16  Scrib- 
ner  $3.75    ,  920 

"Gossip,  pleasant  and  spicy  without  malice, 
about  distinguished  people:  Justin  McCarthy, 
Gladstone,  Disraeli,  Joseph  Chamberlain,  Par- 
nell,  Lord  and  Lady  Salisbury,  Cardinal  New- 
man, Lady  Holland,  Tennyson,  Browning  and 
many   others. 

'Our  author  has  known  every  public  man 
worth  knowing  for  the  last  forty  years,  all 
those  great  men  whom  the  rising  generation 
never  saw  or  only  caught  a  glimpse  of  when 
they  were  past  their  best.  He  tells  us  exactly 
what  impression  they  made  upon  their  con- 
temporaries.' "      (Spectator)    Cleveland 

Sainte-Beuve,  Charles  Augustin 

Portraits  of  the  seventeenth  century,  his- 
toric and  literary;  tr.  by  Katharine  P. 
Wormeley.   2v  il  '09  Putnam  $3.50    920 

Contents:  vi,  Cardinal  de  Richelieu;  Henri, 
due  de  Rohan;  Cardinal  Mazarin;  Francois  due 
de  la  Rochefoucauld;  Anne-Genevieve  de  Bour- 
bon; Cardinal  de  Retz;  Mademoiselle  de  l'En- 
CliVx  Tallemant  des  Reaux  and  Bussy-Rabutin; 
Abb6  de  Ranee;  Anne-Genevieve  de  Bourbon; 
Mane-Madeleine  de  la  Vergne;  Henrietta  Anne 
of  England;  Louis  XIV;  Louise  de  la  Beaume 
le    Blanc 

V2,  History  of  the  French  academy;  Corneille; 
Mademoiselle  de  Scudery;  Moliere;  La  Fon- 
taine; Pascal;  Madame  de  Sevign6;  Bossuet; 
Boileau;  Racine;  Madame  de  Caylus;  Fenelon; 
Comte  Antoine  Hamilton;  Princesse  des  Ursins 
_  "In  these  volumes— taken  from  the  'Causer- 
les  du  lundi,'  the  'Portraits  de  femmes,'  and 
the  Portraits  litt6raires,' — some  passages  have 
been  omitted;  these  relate  chiefly  to  editions 
that  have  long  since  passed  away,  or  to  discus- 
sions on  style  that  cannot  be  made  clear  in 
English.      Also,    where   two    or   more   essays    on 


the_  same  person  have  appeared  in  the  different 
series,  they  are  here  put  together,  omitting  rep- 
etitions."    Translator's  note 

Slosson,  Edwin  Emery 

Major    prophets    of    today,     il    '14    Little 
$1.50  920 

Contents:  Maurice  Maeterlinck;  Henri  Berg- 
son;  Henri  Poincare;  Elie  Metchnikoff;  Wil- 
helm  Ostwald;   Ernst  Haeckel 

"Biographical  and  critical  sketches  of  a  group 
of  the  foremost  thinkers  of  the  day."  Pratt 
quarterly 

Several  of  the  articles  appeared  in  the  In- 
dependent; each  is  followed  by  references  for 
further   reading 

Six  major  prophets,    il   '17   Little  $1.50 

920 
"Clever,  readable,  popular  exposition  rather 
than  criticism  of  Shaw,  Wells,  Chesterton,  F.  C. 
S.  Schiller,  John  Dewey  and  Eucken.  Aims  to 
introduce  readers  to  the  character,  scope  and 
messages  of  these  writers.  Published  in  Inde- 
pendent. Bibliographies,  portraits."  N.Y.  state 
lib. 

"Informal,  good  for  study  clubs."  A.  L.  A. 
bkl. 

Strachey,  Lytton 

Eminent  Victorians.    '18   Putnam  $3.50 

920 

Contents:  Cardinal  Manning;  Florence  Night- 
ingdale;   Dr  Arnold;    General   Gordon 

"The  portrait  that  suggests  most  doubt  is 
that  of  Dr  Arnold  of  Rugby.  .  .  .  The  de- 
tails in  Mr  Strachey's  essay  may  all  be  correct 
.  .  .  but  the  perspective  is  all  wrong,  and  the  re- 
sult is  caricature.  .  .  .  The  pictures  of  Car- 
dinal Manning  and  Florence  Nightingale  are  as 
distinguished  as  they  are  unconventional,  and 
the  story  of  the  long  tragedy  of  the  mission 
and  death  of  Gordon  is  a  very  fine  piece  of 
historical    writing."      Spectator    120:677 

"Infused  with  sketches  of  almost  Gibbonesque 
irony,  these  biographical  studies  of  four  dis- 
tinguished and  famous  personages  present  them 
in  aspects  which  are  more  or  less  familiar." 
Athenaeum,    19 18 

Thayer,  William  Roscoe 

Throne-makers.    '99  Houghton  $1.75     920 
Studies    of     four     'throne-makers' — Bismarck, 
Napoleon   III,    Kossuth,    Garibaldi— and   of   Car- 
lyle,   Tintoret,   Bruno  and  Bryant 

Walton,  Izaak 

Lives  of  Dr  John  Donne,  Sir  Henry  Wot- 
ton,  Sir  Richard  Hooker,  George  Her- 
bert and  Dr  Robert  Sanderson;  ed.  by 
Austin  Dobson.  (Temple  classics)  2v 
Dutton   $1  920 

Webb,    Mary     Griffin,     and     Webb,     Edna 
Lenore 

(eds.)  Famous  living  Americans,  il  '15 
C.  Webb  &  co.,  Greencastle,  Ind.  $5 

920 
"Brief,  readable  sketches  by  authorities,  ap- 
preciating and  interpreting  the  life  work  of 
forty-three  men  and  women  of  our  day.  The 
articles  are  introduced  by  suggestions  on  the 
preparation  and  delivery  of  biographical  speech- 
es by  H.  B.  Gough  of  De  Pauw  university 
and  each  is  followed  by  a  short  bibliography  of 
books  and  periodicals."     Cleveland 

Among  the  men  and  women  who  form  the 
subjects  for  sketches  are  Jane  Addams,  Alex- 
ander Graham  Bell,  Maud  Ballington  Booth, 
William  Jennings  Bryan,  Luther  Biirbank,  John 
Burroughs,  Andrew   Carnegie   and    Helen   Keller 

Yonge,  Charlotte  Mary 

Book  of  golden  deeds  of  all  times  and  all 

lands.      '81     Macmillan     50c;      (Golden 

treasury   ser.)   $1.25  920 

"Stirring    accounts    of   courageous    deeds    per- 


STANDARD    CATALOG 


Yonge,  Charlotte  Mary — Continued 

formed  in  fulfillment  of  duty.  Based  on  care- 
ful study  of  authorities  and  with  but  little 
fictitious  development.  Latest  event  1864." 
(N.Y.  state  lib.)  A.  L.  A. 

Biographical  dictionaries 

Boase,  Frederick 

Modern  English  biography,  containing 
many  thousand  concise  memoirs  of 
persons  who  have  died  since  1850.  vl-5 
1892-1912  Truro,  Netherson  30s  ea      920 

vi-3,  A-Z;  Index  V4-5  (supp.  vi-2)  A-K 
"A  useful  work,  particularly  for  minor  nine- 
teenth century  names  not  included  in  the  'Dic- 
tionary of  national  biography.'  Good  subject 
index,  including  lists  of  pseudonyms,  fancy 
names,  class  lists,  e.g.  actors,  poets,  pugilists, 
masters  of  hounds,  suicides,  etc."     Mudge 

Century  cyclopedia  of  names;  a  pronounc- 
ing and  etymological  dictionary  of 
names  in  geography,  biography,  my- 
thology, history,  ethnology,  art,  archi- 
tecture, fiction,  etc.  rev  and  enl  ['11] 
Century  $10  803 

Also  issued  as  volume  11  of  the  Century 
dictionary 

"A  useful  and  reliable  reference  book  for 
names.  Gives  brief  articles  and  indicates  pro- 
nunciation. This  edition  contains  two  alpha- 
bets, the  first  of  which  is  a  reprint  of  the  orig- 
inal list  of  names  in  the  first  edition,  with  some 
revisions  and  changes,  especially  in  statistics, 
population  figures,  etc.,  while  the  second  is  a 
reprint  from  the  supplementary  list  of  3,000  new 
names  and  new  matter  about  older  names, 
which  was  appended  to  volume  two  of  the  1909 
supplement  to  the  Century  dictionary.  Stars  in 
the  main  alphabet  refer  to  additional  informa- 
tion about  the  same  name  in  the  supplementary 
alphabet  and  'vice  versa.'  Contains  appendixes: 
(1)  Chronological  table  of  the  chief  events  of 
history;  (2)  List  of  rulers;  (3)  Genealogical 
charts;  (4)  Chronological  outlines  of  European 
and  American  literature."     Mudge 

Dictionary  of  national  biography;  ed.  by 
Leslie  Stephen  and  Sidney  Lee.  vl-22 
'08-'09   Oxford  $5   ea  920 

"The  most  important  reference  work  for  Eng- 
lish _  biography,  containing  signed  articles  by 
specialists,  and  excellent  bibliographies.  Articles 
are  adequate,  i.e.  important  names  treated  at 
great  length,  minor  names  more  briefly,  and 
are  generally  reliable  and  scholarly.  Scope  in- 
cludes all  noteworthy  inhabitants  of  the  British 
Isles  and  the  Colonies,  exclusive  of  living  per- 
sons; includes  noteworthy  Americans  of  the 
colonial  period.  The  first  supplement  includes 
biographies  of  those  omitted  from  the  main  part 
and  of  those  who  died  before  January  22,  190 1; 
the  second  supplement  carries  the  record  to  De- 
cember 31,  191 1 ;  the  entire  work  includes  30,935 
biographies.  The  index  and  the  epitome  serves 
a  double  purpose,  i.e.  it  is  both  an  index  to  the 
main  work  and  the  first  supplement,  and  also  an 
independent  biographical  dictionary,  as  it  gives 
abstracts,  each  about  one-fourteenth  of  the 
length  of  the  original  article. 

The  main  work  and  first  supplement  [were] 
published  _  in  two  editions,  the  original  edition 
in  sixty-six  volumes,  and  a  re-issue,  1908,  on 
slightly  thinner  paper,  compressed  into  twenty- 
two  volumes.  This  reprint  incorporates  in  the 
articles  the  corrections  noted  in  the  volume  of 
'Errata'  and  is,  to  that  extent,  to  be  preferred 
to  the  original  edition.  Libraries  buying  the 
work  now  are  recommended  to  purchase  the 
reprint,  but  libraries  having  the  original  edition 
and  the  volume  of  'Errata'  do  not  need  the 
reprint."  Mudge 
— Index  and  epitome;  ed.  by  Sidney  Lee. 
2d  ed  '13  Oxford  $7.50  920 


— Second  supplement;  ed.  by  Sir  Sidney 

Lee.  3v  '12  Oxford  $5  ea  920 

— Second  supplement,  index  and  epitome; 

ed.  by  Sir  Sidney  Lee.   '13  Oxford  $1.25 

920 
Hyamson,  Albert  Montefiore 

Dictionary  of  universal  biography  of  all 
ages  and  of  all  peoples.    '16  Dutton  $10 

920 
"A  dictionary  of  the  'title  a  line'  type;  gives 
brief  information,  i.e.  only  full  name,  charac- 
terizing phrase  and  dates  of  birth  and  death. 
Includes  no  names  of  personages  still  living." 
Mudge 

Men  and  women  of  America;  a  biograph- 
ical dictionary  of  contemporaries.  '10 
Hamersly  $10  920 

"A  second  edition  of  'Men  of  America,'  1908, 
including  many  new  names,  mostly  those  of 
women,  but  omitting  some  important  names. 
Articles  are  somewhat  longer  than  those  in 
'Who's  who  in  America.'  "      Mudge 

Morgan,  Henry  James 
Canadian  men  and  women  of  the  time,  a 
handbook     of     living     characters.       '12 
Toronto,   Briggs  $5  920 

"Contains  7,960  concise  biographies.  More 
comprehensive  than  the  'Canadian  who's  who.'  " 
Mudge 

National  cyclopedia  of  American  biogra- 
phy. vl-15  in  16v  il  1892-1916  White  $10 
ea  920 

"Articles  are  not  of  a  very  high  order  but 
the  entire  work  includes  a  great  many  names 
and  is  therefore  useful,  especially  for  names 
not  given  in  Appleton.  Includes  living  person- 
ages. Not  arranged  alphabetically,  so  must  be 
used  thru  the  index;  V14-15  are  supplementary 
volumes  published  1910  and  1914-1916;  not  in- 
dexed in  the   Conspectus  noted  below. 

Issued  in  several  editions,  or  printings,  which 
vary  somewhat,  later  issues  showing  some  ad- 
ditions and  rearrangements.  Numbering  of  vol- 
umes is  somewhat  irregular,  i.e.  in  some  sets  14 
is  supplement  vi,  and  in  others  V14,  and  two 
different  volumes  numbered  as  vis  have  been 
issued,  one  in  1914  and  the  other  in  1916.  The 
first  vis  is  not  found  in  all  sets."  Mudge 
— Conspectus  of  American  biography; 
being  an  analytical  summary  of  Amer- 
ican history  and  biography,  containing 
also  the  complete  indexes  of  the  "Na- 
tional cyclopedia  of  American  biogra- 
phy;" comp.  by  George  Derby.  '06 
White  $10  920 

"Contains  both  a  personal  and  a  topical  index 
to  vi-13  of  the  above,  and  in  addition  the  fol- 
lowing chronological  lists:  Delegates  to  the 
colonial  congresses;  Presidents  and  vice-presi- 
dents; Cabinets;  Candidates  for  presidency; 
Senators;  Congressmen;  Ambassadors;  Heads  of 
government  departments;  Judiciary;  Presidents 
of  religious  organizations;  College  presidents; 
Bishops  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  church; 
Roman  Catholic  hierarchy;  Bishops  of  other 
denominations;  Presidents  of  scientific  socie- 
ties; Directors  of  astronomical  observatories; 
Commanders  of  army  and  navy  in  war;  [Com- 
manders] of  G.  A.  R.;  U.S.  Commissioners; 
Founders  of  religious  sects;  Public  statues  in 
the  U.S.;  Pseudonyms  and  sobriquets;  Notable 
sayings,  etc. 

The  personal  index  is  not  absolutely  complete 
and  accurate,  and  must  sometimes  be  supple- 
mented by  indexes  in  the  separate  volumes." 
Mudge 

Preev,  Zinovy  N. 

Russian    revolution    and    Who's    who     in 

Russia.    '17  Bale  &  Danielsson  2s     920 

"This    little    book,    by    the     editor     of     the 


BIOGRAPHY— Collective 


Preev,  Zinovy  N. — Continued 

Twentieth  century  Russian  and  Anglo-Russian 
review,  contains  first  an  account  of  the  revolu- 
tion (iop)  and  then  a  'Who's  who,'  not  con- 
fined to  persons  but  containing  explanations  of 
phrases  like  'Constitutional  democrats,'  'Intel- 
ligentsia,' 'Zemstvo  union,'  etc."  The  Times 
[London] 
Qui  etes-vous?  annuaire  des  contemporains, 
1909-10.    '09  Lemcke  $2  920 

"First  issue  1008;  no  more  published.  Biog- 
raphies are  very  brief,  not  equal  to  those  in 
'Who's  who,'  or  'Who's  who  in  America.'  " 
Mudge 

Smith,  Sir  William 

Classical  dictionary  of  Greek  and  Roman 
biography,  mythology  and  geography; 
rev.  and  in  part  rewritten  by  G.  E. 
Marindin.    '94  Little  $6  920 

Thomas,  Joseph 

Universal  pronouncing  dictionary  of  bi- 
ography and  mythology.  4th  ed  rev  '15 
Lippincott  lv  ed  $10;  2v  ed  $15  920 

"The  most  frequently  useful  of  the  general 
biographical  dictionaries  in  English.  Compre- 
hensive, includes  men  and  women  of  all  na- 
tions and  periods,  including  many  still  living; 
names  from  the  Greek,  Roman,  Teutonic,  San- 
skrit and  other  mythologies  are  also  included. 
Articles  in  general  are  brief;  tho  there  are  some 
long  articles,  pronunciation  is  marked  and  there 
is  some  bibliography,  tho  this  feature  is  not  im- 
portant. Appendixes:  Vocabulary  of  Christian 
(or  first)  names,  with  pronunciation,  and  equiv- 
alents in  the  principal  foreign  languages;  Dis- 
puted   or    doubtful    pronunciations. 

The  fourth  edition  tho  revised  so  as  to  in- 
clude considerable  new  material  is  not  reset  but 
is  printed  from  the  plates  of  the  third  edition 
(iooi)  with  alterations  in  some  of  the  older 
articles  to  bring  them  to  date,  omission  of  some 
minor  articles,  and  inclusion  of  new  names." 
Mudge 

Wer  ist's?  unsere  zeitgenossen;  zeitgenos- 
sen-lexikon.  vl-7,  1905-13  Degener, 
1905-13  9.50m  ea  920 

Edited  by  H.  A.  L.  Degener. 

"Articles  are  concise  and  much  abbreviated; 
not  strictly  limited  to  German  biographyas  some 
Austrian,  Dutch  and  Swiss  names  are  included. 
Contains  also  a  list  of  German  pseudonyms. 
Discontinued  on  account  of  the  European  war." 
Mudge 

Who's  who  1918,  an  annual  biographical 
dictionary,  with  which  is  incorporated 
"Men  and  women  of  the  time."  Mac- 
millan   1918  $7.50  920 

"Issued    annually   since    1849. 

The  pioneer  work  of  the  'who's  who*  type 
and  still  the  most  important  work  of  the  kind. 
Principally  English,  but  not  limited  to  English- 
men, as  a  few  prominent  names  of  other_  na- 
tionalities are  included.  Biographies  are  reliable 
and  fairly  detailed;  give  main  facts,  addresses 
and,  in  case  of  authors,  list  of  works."     Mudge 

Who's  who  in  America;  a  biographical  dic- 
tionary of  notable  living  men  and 
women  of  the  United  States,  vlO,  1918- 
19.     Marquis    1918  $6  920 

"Issued  biennially;  first  edition   1899. 

An  excellent  dictionary  of  contemporary  bi- 
ography containing  concise  biographical  data, 
with  addresses  and,  in  case  of  authors,  lists  of 
works.  Additional  sections  are:  Lists  of  pro- 
nunciation of  difficult  names;  Educational  sta- 
tistics;   Geographical    index."      Mudge 

Who's  who  in  New  England;  a  biograph- 
ical   dictionary     of     leading     men    and 


women;  ed.  by  A.  N.  Marquis.  2d  ed  '16 
Marquis  $12.50  920 

"First   edition,    1909. 

Duplicates  only  a  small  portion  of  the  names 
in  'Who's  who  in  America';  includes  12,844 
biographies  of  which  10,065  represent  names  not 
included  in  the  more  general  work."     Mudge 

Who's  who  in  New  York  city  and  state; 
a  biographical  dictionary  of  contem- 
poraries. 6th  biennial  ed  '14  Who's  who 
in   N.Y.   city  and  state  $10  920 

Books  of  the  same  kind  have  been  published 
for    other   states   and  cities 

Who's  who  of  the  colored  race;  a  general 
biographical  dictionary  of  men  and 
women  of  African  descent,  vl  '15  920 
"Entries  largely  confined  to  the  United 
States.  Contains  several  pages  of  statistics  and 
miscellaneous  information  in  regard  to  the  col- 
ored race  in  the  United  States  and  elsewhere." 
Cleveland 

Who's  who  yearbook,  v.  1-14,  1904-17.  Mac- 
millan   1904-17  50c  per  vol.  920 

"A  supplement  to  'Who's  who,'  giving  many 
miscellaneous  lists  which  before  1904  were  in- 
cluded in  'Who's  who'  itself.  Contains:  Lists 
of  ambassadors,  government  officials,  etc.;  Clubs; 
Colleges;  Peculiarly  pronounced  proper  names; 
Pseudonyms;  Societies;  Specialists  and  experts; 
Steamship  lines;  University  professors  (subject 
lists);   etc."     Mudge 

Yale  university 

Obituary  record  of  graduates  of  Yale 
university,  1859-date.  Yale  univ.  secre- 
tary's  office  920 

"Issued  annually  [since  i860],  about  ten  an- 
nual issues  forming  a  volume  or  'series';  there 
is  a  general  name  index  to  each  series."  Mudge 

There  is  no  charge;  can  be  obtained  from 
Yale    university    secretary's    office 

"For  other  American  titles  consult  'A  check 
list  of  biographical  directories  and  general  cat- 
alogs of  American  colleges  and  universities' 
compiled  by  Eva  Alice  Cole  and  printed  in  the 
New  York  Genealogical  and  biographical  record 
for   January,    1915."      Mudge 

920.7      Biographies  of  women 

Abbot,  Willis  John 

Notable  women  in  history,  il  '13  Wins- 
ton $2.40  920.7 
"Brief  sketches  of  seventy  women,  'who  in 
all  ages,  all  lands  and  in  all  womanly  occupa- 
tions have  won  fame  and  put  their  imprint  on 
the  world's  history.'  (Subtitle)  The  collection 
is  adapted  to  the  needs  of  the  small  library  and 
useful  to  those  preparing  papers  on  the  woman 
movement.     Portraits  poor."     A.   L.  A.  bkl. 

Contains  six  of  the  ten  subjects  in  Adams 
and    Foster's    "Heroines    of    modern    progress" 

l  Adams,     Elmer     Cleveland,     and  Foster, 
Warren  Dunham 

Heroines    of     modern     progress,  il     '13 

Sturgis   &  Walton  $1.50  920.7 

Contents:  Elizabeth  Fry;  Mary  Lyon;  Eliz- 
abeth Cady  Stanton;  Harriet  Beecher  Stowe; 
Florence  Nightingale;  Clara  Barton;  Julia 
Ward  Howe;  Frances  E.  Willard;  J.  Ellen 
Foster;   Jane   Addams;    Chronological   outlines 

Portraits,    chronological   table   and   index 

Bolton,  Mrs  Sarah  (Knowles) 

Famous     leaders     among     women.       '95 
Crowell  $1  920.7 

Contents:  Madame  de  Maintenon;  Catherine 
II  of  Russia;  Madame  le  Brun;  Dolly  Madison; 
Catherine  Booth;  Lucy  Stone;  Lady  Henry 
Somerset;  Julia  Ward  Howe;  Queen  Victoria 


STANDARD    CATALOG 


Bolton,  Mrs  Sarah  (Knowles)  — Continued 
Lives   of   girls  who  became   famous.    '86 
Crowell    $1.50  920.7 

Contents:  Harriet  Beecher  Stowe;  Helen  Hunt 
Jackson;  Lucretia  Mott;  Mary  A.  Livermore; 
Margaret  Fuller  Ossoli;  Maria  Mitchell; 
Louisa  M.  Alcott;  Mary  Lyon;  Harriet  G. 
Hosmer;  Madame  de  Stael;  Rosa  Bonheur; 
Elizabeth  Barrett  Browning;  "George  Eliot"; 
Elizabeth  Fry;  Elizabeth  Thompson  Butler; 
Florence  Nightingale;  Lady  Brassey;  Baroness 
Burdett-Coutts;    Jean   Ingelow 

Bonstelle,  Jessie,  and   De  Forest,  Marion, 

(comps.)   Little  women  letters  from    the 
house  of  Alcott.    il  '14  Little  $1.35 

920.7 

"Selections  from  the  letters  and  diaries  of 
Louisa  Alcott  and  her  family  connected  by  a 
sympathetic  biographical  narrative  by  the 
dramatizers  of  'Little  women.'  Gives  an  at- 
tractive picture  of  the  home  life  of  the  Alcotts. 
Illustrations  from  portraits  and  facsimiles." 
N.Y.  state  lib. 

Bradford,  Gamaliel,  jr. 

Portraits    of    women,     il    '16     Houghton 
$2.50  920.7 

Contents:  Lady  Mary  Wortley  Montagu; 
Lady  Holland;  Miss  Austen;  Madame  d'Arblay; 
Mrs  Pepys;  Madame  de  Sevigne;  Madame  du 
Deffand;  Madame  de  Choiseul;  Eugenie  de 
Guerin 

Reprinted  from  the  North  American  review, 
the   Sewanee   review  and  other  periodicals 

Burton,   Margaret  Ernestine 

Notable  women  of  modern   China,    il  '12 
Revell  $1.25  920.7 

"Interesting  biographies  of  six  Chinese  wo- 
men who  are  doing  valuable  work  for  their  coun- 
try, mostly  as  physicians  and  heads  of 
hospitals  connected  with  the  Methodist  missions. 
With  two  exceptions  they  were  educated  in 
America.  ...  A  companion  to  the  author's 
'Education  of  women  in  China'  and  equally 
useful  for  study  clubs  and  mission  classes." 
A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

Foster,  Warren   Dunham 

(ed.)    Heroines    of     modern     religion,     il 
'13  Sturgis  &  Walton  $1.50  920.7 

Contents:  Anne  Hutchinson;  Susannah  Wes- 
ley; E.  A.  Seton;  Lucretia  Mott;  Fanny  Crosby; 
Sister  Dora;  H.  W.  Smith;  F.  R.  Havergal; 
Ramabai  Dongre  Medhavi;  Maud  Ballington 
Booth 

Bibliography,  P258-61;  Chronological  outline, 
P262-7 

Imbert  de  Saint-Amand,  Arthur  Leon 
Women  of  the  Valois  court;  tr.  by  E.  G. 
Martin.  (Famous  women  of  the  French 
court)     '93    Scribner   $1.50  920.7 

Sketches  of  Marguerite  of  Angouleme;  Cath- 
erine de  Medici;  Diane  de  Poitiers;  Marie 
Stuart;  Elizabeth  of  France;  Jeanne  d'Albret; 
Elizabeth   of   Austria;    Louise  de  Vaudemont 

"This  and  the  following  entries  on  the  Ver- 
sailles court  are  examples  of  a  long  series  of 
very  popular  French  historic  studies  by  the 
same  author.  They  have  no  historic  value  but 
are  said  to  be  fairly  accurate  and  are  extremely 
readable."      A.   L.   A. 

Lee,  Elizabeth 

Wives  of  the  prime  ministers,   1844-1906. 
il    '19  Dutton  $5  920.7 

"Biographical  sketches  of  women  of  high  posi- 
tion in  English  social  and  political  life  during 
the  latter  half  of  the  nineteenth  century.  .  .  . 
The  subjects  of  the  sketches  are  Lady  Caroline 
Lamb,  Lady  Peel,  Lady  John  Russell,  Lady 
Palmerston,  Mrs  Disraeli,  Mrs  Gladstone,  Lady 
Salisbury  and  Lady  Campbell-Bannerman.  The 
book  is  illustrated  with  portraits  and  there  is  an 
index."     Book  rev.   digest 


Parkman,  Mary  Rosetta 

Heroines  of  service,    il  '17  Century  $1.35 

920.7 

Contents:  Mary  Lyon;  A.  F.  Palmer;  Clara 
Barton;  F.  E.  Willard;  J.  W.  Howe;  A.  H. 
Shaw;  Mary  Antin;  A.  C.  Fletcher;  Mary  Sles- 
sor;   M.    S.   Curie;  Jane  Addams 

"Short  biographies  of  eleven  women  notable 
in  educational,  philanthropic,  scientific  and 
other  fields."     Pratt  quarterly 

Photographic    illustrations 

Spofford,  Mrs  Harriet  Elizabeth  (Prescott) 
Little  book  of  friends.    '16  Little  $1.25 

920.7 

Contents:  Annie  Fields;  Sarah  Orne  Jcwett; 
Anne  Whitney;  Celia  Thaxter;  Gail  Hamilton; 
Mary  Louise  Booth;  Jane  Andrews;  Louisa 
Stone  Hopkins;  Rose  Terry  Cooke;  Louise 
Chandler  Moulton 

"Interesting  chronicle  of  the  friendships  of  a 
coterie  of  gifted  New  England  women,  prom- 
inent in  art  and  letters."      N.Y.  state  lib. 

Woman's  who's  who  of  America;  a  bio- 
graphical dictionary  of  contemporary 
women  of  the  United  States  and  Can- 
ada, 1914-1915;  ed.  by  J.  W.  Leonard. 
'14  Am.  commonwealth  co.  $5  920.7 
"Concise  and  adequate  biographical  sketches 
of  about  10,000  women,  including  a  large  pro- 
portion of  obscure  names.  Their  attitude  on 
the  suffrage  question  is  indicated  where  possi- 
ble."    A.  L.  A.   bkl. 


922  Religion 


Baring-Gould,  Sabine 

Lives  of  the  saints,  with  introduction  and 
additional  lives  of  English  martyrs, 
Cornish,  Scottish  and  Welsh  saints,  and 
a  full  index  to  the  entire  work,  new 
and  rev  ed;  il  by  473  engravings  16v 
maps  '14  Edinburgh,  Grant  42s  922 

Butler,  Alban 

Lives  of  the  saints;  with  reflections  for 
every  day  in  the  year.   '13  Benziger  50c 

922 
"Compiled  from  the  'Lives  of  the  saints';  to 
which  are  added  lives  of  American  saints 
placed  on  the  calendar  for  the  United  States  by 
special  petition  of  the  third  Plenary  council  of 
Baltimore."      Title  page 

Farrar,  Frederic  William 

Seekers   after  God.    '02  Macmillan  $1.75; 

miniature  ed  60  922 

Contents:   Seneca;  Epictetus;  Marcus  Aurelius 

Hodges,  George 

Saints  and  heroes  to  the  end  of  the  mid- 
dle ages,  il  '11  Holt  $1.40  922 

Contents:  Cyprian;  Athanasius;  Ambrose; 
Chrysostom;  Jerome;  Augustine;  Benedict; 
Gregory  the  Great;  Columba;  Charlemagne; 
Hildebrand;  Anselm;  Bernard;  Becket;  Lang- 
ton;  Dominic;  Francis;  Wycliffe;  Hus;  Savonar- 
ola 
Saints  and  heroes  since  the  middle  ages. 
'12  Holt  $1.40  922 

Contents:  Luther;  More;  Loyola;  Cranmer; 
Calvin;  Knox;  Coligny;  William  the  Silent; 
Brewster;  Laud;  Cromwell;  Bunyan;  Fox;  Wes- 
ley 

Jacobus   de  Voragine 

Golden  legend;  lives  of  the  saints;  tr.  by 
William  Caxton;  selected  and  ed.  by 
G.  V.  O'Neill.  '14  Putnam  $1.10  922 
"A  series  of  biographies  of  the  saints  written 
in  Latin  by  Voragine  in  the  thirteenth  century 
and  translated  and  first  printed  in  English  by 
Caxton   in    1483."      Pratt   alcove 


BIOGRAPHY— Collective 


Kumm,   Hermann   Karl   Wilhelm 

African  missionary  heroes   and  heroines, 
maps  '17  'Macmillan  $1.25  922 

List  of  books  of  reference,  P205-8 
"Six  lectures  given  before  the  College  of 
missions,  Indianapolis,  which  describe  the  work 
and  lives  of  ten  missionaries  to  Africa,  Crow- 
ther,  Krapf,  Mary  Slessor,  Mackay,  Livingstone 
and  others.  Will  be  of  more  value  to  mission- 
ary societies  and  classes  than  as  literature  or 
history."      A.    L.    A.    bkl. 

Walker,   Williston 

Great   men   of  the   Christian   church.    '10 
Univ.  of  Chicago  press  $1.50  922 

Contents:  Justin  Martyr;  Tertullian;  Athanas- 
ius;  Augustine;  Patrick;  Benedict;  Hildebrand; 
Godfrey;  Francis;  Thomas  Aquinas;  John 
Wyclif;  Martin  Luther;  John  Calvin;  John 
Knox;  Ignatius  Loyola;  George  Fox;  N.  L.  von 
Zinzendorf;  John  Wesley;  Jonathan  Edwards; 
Horace   Bushnell 

Additional  reading  at  the  end  of  each  chapter 


923  Sociology 


Bagehot,  Walter 

Biographical  studies;  ed.  by  R.  H.  Hut- 
ton.  '89  Longmans  $1.25  923 
Contents:  Lord  Althorp;  Bolingbroke;  Lord 
Brougham;  Gladstone;  Sir  George  Come  wall 
Lewis;  Sir  Robert  Peel;  William  Pitt;  Adam 
Smith 

Barneveldt,  Jan  van  Olden 
Motley,  J.  L.  Life  and  death  of  John  of 
Barneveld,  advocate  of  Holland;  with 
a  view  of  the  primary  causes  and  move- 
ments of  the  Thirty  years'  war.  2v  '02 
Harper  $4  923 

"An"  account  of  what  is  known  in  the  Nether- 
lands as  the  'Twelve  years'  truce.'  It  was  a 
turbulent  period  of  intrigues  between  the  con- 
flict that  for  more  than  forty  years  had  been 
raging  in  Holland,  and  that  greater  struggle 
which  engrossed  the  energies  of  all  central 
Europe  for  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century." 
(C.    K.   Adams)    Pittsburgh 

Bolton,  Mrs  Sarah  (Knowles) 

Famous     voyagers     and    explorers.       '93 
Crowell  $1  923 

Contents:  Columbus;  Marco  Polo;  Magellan; 
Sir  Walter  Raleigh;  Sir  John  Franklin;  Dr 
Kane;  C.  F.  Hall;  David  Livingstone;  M.  C. 
Perry;  General  Greely 

Bradford,  Gamaliel,   jr. 

Confederate  portraits,   il  '14  Houghton  $3 

923 

"Character  studies  of  J.  E.  Johnston,  J.  E. 
B.  Stuart,  Longstreet,  Beauregard,  J.  P.  Ben- 
jamin, A.  H.  Stephens,  Robert  Toombs,  Raphael 
Semmes  and  a  short  chapter  on  the  battle  of 
Gettysburg.  Companion  volume  to  author's 
'Lee  the  American'  and  shows  the  same  careful 
research  and  considered  judgment.  Appeared 
in  large  part  in  the  Atlantic  monthly.  Por- 
traits."     N.Y.  state   lib. 

Union  portraits,    il  '16  Houghton  $1.75 

923 

Titles  of  books  most  frequently  cited,  P297-8 
"Character  studies  of  McClellan,  Hooker, 
Meade,  Thomas,  Sherman,  Stanton,  Seward, 
Sumner  and  Samuel  Bowles,  displaying  the 
clear  insight,  careful  judgment  and  fluent  style 
of  the  author's  'Confederate  portraits.'  "  NY 
state   lib. 

Crook,    William   Henry 

Thru   five  administrations;   ed.   by  M.    S. 

Gerry,    il  '10   Harper  $2  923 

"Intimate    and    interesting    reminiscences      of 

Lincoln  s   body   guard,    full   of   anecdotes    of   the 


president  and  his  visitors.  Last  part  of  the 
book  treats  in  a  similar  manner  the  administra- 
tions of  Johnson,  Grant,  Hayes  and  Garfield." 
A.  L.  A.  sup. 

Davis,  Richard  Harding 

Real  soldiers  of  fortune,  il  maps  '06 
Scribner    $1.50  923 

"Brief  life  stories  of  six  modern  adventurers: 
Major  General  Maclver,  Baron  Harden-Hickey, 
Winston  Spencer  Churchill,  Captain  McGiffin, 
General  Walker,  Major  Burham,  chief  of 
scouts."     A.   L.  A.  sup. 

Dodd,   William   Edward 

Statesmen  of  the  old  South;  or,  From 
radicalism  to  conservative  revolt.  '11 
Macmillan   $1.50  923 

"Political  and  biographical  essays  on  Thomas 
Jefferson,  John  C.  Calhoun  and  Jefferson 
Davis.  They  are  readable,  fairly  accurate,  and, 
on  the  whole,  valuable  contributions  to  the  lit- 
erature  of   political    evolution."      A.    L.    A.    sup. 

Fitchett,  William  Henry 

Nelson  and  his  captains:  sketches  of 
famous  seamen.  '02  Scribner  $1.75  923 
Contents:  Nelson,  a  character  study;  Men  of 
Nelson's  school;  Sir  Edward  Berry;  Captain 
Edward  Riou;  Sir  Henry  Blackwood;  Sir 
Thomas  Troubridge;  Sir  Benjamin  Hallowell 
(Carew);  Sir  Alexander  Ball;  Sir  James  Sau- 
marez;  Sir  William  Parker;  Sir  Edward  Pellew 
(Lord  Exmouth);  Sir  Thomas  Foley;  Sir 
Thomas    Masterman    Hardy 

Forbes,  Bertie  Charles 

Men  who  are  making  America,  il  map  '17 
Forbes  $3  923 

"Short  biographies,  in  most  cases  built  around 
an  interview,  of  the  fifty  foremost  business  and 
financial  leaders  selected  by  questionnaires. 
They  describe  the  man,  his  struggle  and  method 
of  success  and  something  of  his  business.  They 
are  written  in  a  popular  style  and  will  often 
save  the  trouble  of  searching  for  magazine  ma- 
terial.    Appeared  in  Leslies."     A.   L.  A.  bkl. 

Frothingham,  Jessie  Peabody 

Sea  fighters  from  Drake  to  Farragut.  '02 
Scribner  $1.35  923 

"Stirring    events     in    the  naval      careers      of 

Drake,    Tromp,    De    Ruyter,  Tourville,    Suffren, 

Paul  Jones,  Nelson  and  Farragut."  (N.Y. 
state  lib.)  A.  L.  A. 

Greely,  Adolphus   Washington 

Explorers  and  travelers.  (Men  of 
achievement)  '02  Scribner  $1.50  923 
Mainly  American  exploration;  sketches  Joliet, 
Le  Moyne,  Carver,  Gray,  Lewis,  Clark,  Pike, 
Wilkes,  Fremont,  Kane,  Hayes,  Hall,  De  Long, 
Du  Chaillu  and  Stanley 

Haydon,  Arthur  Lincoln 

(comp.)  Book  of  the  V.  C.  il  '06  Dutton 
$1.50  923 

"Spirited  account  of  the  exploits  by  which 
the  Victoria  Cross  has  been  won,  and  the 
names  of  the  recipients  of  the  badge  of  honor." 
A.    L.   A.    sup. 

Hopkinson,    Leslie    White 

Greek  leaders.    '18  Houghton  $1  923 

Contents:  Solon;  Themistocles;  Pericles;  Al- 
cibiades;  Socrates;  Agesilaus;  Dionysius  the 
Elder;  Epaminondas;  Demosthenes;  Alexander 
the  Great;  Aratus;   Summary  of  Greek  history 

"Biographies  of  manageable  length  which 
combine  attractive  literary  form  with  real  merit 
as  history.  .  .  .  Each  of  these  subordinates 
tendencies,  movements,  enterprises,  collaborators 
to  a  dominant  personality  in  a  way  that  makes 
them  intelligent  and  interesting  .  .  .  and  gives 
seriousness  and  significance  to  its  subjects  by 
exhibiting  them  at  work  on  the  most  momentous 


STANDARD   CATALOG 


Hopkinson,  Leslie  White — Continued 

problems  of  their  own  people,  state  and  age. 
.  .  .  The  book  is  edited  by  William  Scott 
Ferguson,  professor  of  ancient  history  at  Harv- 
ard."     Book   rev.    digest 

Johnston,   Charles   Haven  Ladd 

Famous  cavalry  leaders.   '15  Page  $1.50 

923 
Contents:  Attila;  Saladin;  Genghis  Khan; 
Chevalier  Bayard;  Count  Pappenheim;  Gustavus 
Adolphus;  Prince  Rupert;  Old  Father  Ziethen; 
Frederick  William  Baron  von  Seydlitz;  Francis 
Marion;  Marshal  Ney;  Joachim  Murat;  Jeb 
Stuart;  Phil  Sheridan;  George  Armstrong  Cus- 
ter 

Famous     discoverers    and    explorers     of 
America.    '17  Page  $1.50  923 

Contents:  Leif  Ericson;  Christopher  Colum- 
bus; Amerigo  Vespucci;  Juan  Ponce  de  Leon; 
Vasco  Nunez  de  Balboa;  Hernando  Cortfis; 
Ferdinand  Magellan;  Giovanni  Verrazano; 
Francisco  Pizarro;  Hernando  de  Soto;  Samuel 
de  Champlain;  Henry  Hudson;  Pierre  Esprit 
Radisson;  Father  Marquette;  Robert  de  La 
Salle;   Robert  Edwin  Peary 

Famous  frontiersmen  and  heroes  of    the 
border.    '13  Page  $1.50  923 

Contents:  Daniel  Morgan;  James  Harrod; 
Robert  McLellan;  Colonel  Benjamin  Logan; 
George  Rogers  Clarke;  John  Slover;  Lewis 
Wetzel;  Samuel  Colter;  Meshack  Browning; 
"Bill"  Bent;  Thomas  Eddie;  Jim  Bridger;  "Old 
Bill"  Williams;  "Big  Foot"  Wallace;  Captain 
Jack  Hays;  Bill  Hamilton;  Uncle  Job  Wither- 
spoon;  Henry  Shane;  Poor  Jerry  Lane;  Song 
of   the   moose;    Retrospect 

Famous  scouts.    '10  Page  $1.50  923 

"The  adventures  of  trappers,  pioneers  and 
soldiers  of  the  frontier  during  the  period  of  the 
wars  for  the  white  conquest  of  the  American 
continent.  Includes:  Israel  Putnam;  Daniel 
Boone;  Simon  Kenton;  Lewis  and  Clark;  Davy 
Crockett;  Kit  Carson;  William  F.  Cody  and 
others."      Cleveland 

Johnston,  John  Thomas  Morris 

World  patriots,    il  '17  World  patriots  CO., 
inc.,  489  5th  av.,  N.Y.  $1.50  923 

Contents:  Abraham  Lincoln,  United  States; 
Simon  Bolivar,  South  America;  Napoleon  Bona- 
parte, France;  Peter  the  Great,  Russia;  Otto 
von  Bismarck,  Germany;  William  Pitt,  England; 
Hirobumi  Ito,  Japan;  Camillo  Benso  Cavour, 
Italy;  Gustavus  Adolphus,  Sweden;  George 
Washington,  America;  Ten  commandments  of 
patriotism;  Robert  E.  Lee;  Thomas  Jefferson; 
Thomas    Hart    Benton 

Johnston,   Robert  Matteson 

Leading  American  soldiers,   il  '07  Holt  $2 

923 

Contents:  The  Revolution:  George  Washing- 
ton; Nathaniel  Greene.  From  the  Revolution 
to  the  Civil  war:  Andrew  Jackson;  Zachary 
Taylor;  Winfield  Scott.  The  Civil  war:  North: 
Ulysses  S.  Grant;  William  T.  Sherman;  Philip 
H.  Sheridan;  George  B.  McClellan;  George 
Gordon  Meade.  South:  Robert  Edward  Lee; 
Thomas  Jonathan  Jackson;  Joseph  Eggleston 
Johnston 

"In  spite  of  the  number  of  contradictions  and 
many  inaccuracies  in  this  book,  the  arrangement 
is  scholarly,  brief,  precise,  and  contains  in  a 
very  few  pages  the  most  important  events  which 
have  made  the  men  whose  lives  are  described 
from  the  point  of  view  of  the  American  reader, 
historical  characters."     N.Y.  Times  12:711 

Larned,    Josephus    Nelson 

Study  of  greatness  in  men.   '11  Houghton 
$1.35  923 

"Fresh,  stimulating  analyses  of  character  and 
motive,  marked  by  high  ideals.  Asserts  that 
greatness     depends     upon     the      combination     of 


great  endowments,  great  opportunities,  and  great 

motives,    and    tests    by    this    definition  the    lives 

of    Napoleon,    Cromwell,    Washington  and    Lin- 
coln."     N.Y.    state   lib. 

Laut,  Agnes  Christina 

Pathfinders  of  the  West,  new  ed  il  maps 
Macmillan   $2.25  923 

"Romantic  and  adventurous  lives  of  Radis- 
son, Le  Verendrye,  Hearne,  Mackenzie,  Lewis 
and  Clark.  Not  merely  authentic,  founded  on 
original  documents,  but  vivified  by  the  touch 
of  an  artist."  (Dial)  A.  L.  A.  sup. 
First  published   in    1904 

Lossing,    Benson  John 

Two  spies;  Nathan  Hale  and  John  An- 
dre, [and]  Anna  Seward's  Monody  on 
Major  Andre.  '86  Appleton  $2.25  923 
"Based  on  Stuart's  'Hale'  and  Sargeant's 
'Andre.'  Makes  a  strong  presentation  of  An- 
dre's courage.  Merit  of  book  lies  in  author's 
illustrations  from  nature."     A.   L.  A. 

McCarthy,  Justin 

British  political  portraits.  '03  Unwin  7s 
6d;   popular  ed  3s  6d  923 

Contents:  Balfour;  Lord  Salisbury;  Lord 
Rosebery;  Chamberlain;  Labouchere;  John 
Morley;  Lord  Aberdeen;  John  Burns;  Sir 
Michael  Hicks-Beach;  John  E.  Redmond;  Sir 
William  Harcourt;  James  Bryce;  Sir  Henry 
Campbell-Bannerman 

Moran,  Thomas  Francis 

American  presidents.    '17  Crowell    75c 

923 
"Short  sketches  of  the  presidents  in  three 
groups,  from  Washington  to  Jackson,  from  Jack- 
son to  Lincoln,  from  Lincoln  to  Wilson,  show- 
ing their  individualities  and  their  contributions 
to  American  progress.  An  interesting  study  of 
the  ethics  of  the  presidential  campaign  is  added." 
Wis.  bul. 

Morris,  Charles 

Heroes  of  discovery  in  America,  il  '06 
Lippincott  $1.25  923 

"Brief,   popular   sketches   of    more   than    forty 

men,   from   Leif   Ericson   to   Marcus   Whitman." 

A.  L.  A-  sup. 

Heroes   of  the   army  in   America,    il   '06 

Lippincott  $1.25    '  923 

"Short  sketches  of  American  soldiers  from 
Washington  to  General  Miles,  the  Sioux  and 
Apache  Indian  fighter.  Among  others,  _  in- 
cludes Israel  Putnam,  the  ranger  and  warrior; 
Ethan  Allen,  the  chief  of  the  Green  mountain 
boys;  Anthony  Wayne,  the  stormer  of  Stony 
Point;  Henry  Lee,  the  Light  Horse  Harry  of 
'76;  William  Henry  Harrison,  the  hero  of 
Tippecanoe;  Samuel  Houston,  the  winner  of 
Texan  independence,  and  the  principal  Civil 
war   leaders   on   both   sides."      Pittsburgh 

Heroes  of  the  navy  in  America,  il  '07 
Lippincott  $1.25  923 

Contents:  Jeremiah  O'Brien;  Nicholas  Bid- 
die;  J.  P.  Jones;  Richard  Dale;  John  Barry; 
Benedict  Arnold;  Samuel  Tucker;  Joshua  Bar- 
ney; Thomas  Truxton;  Edward  Preble;  Wil- 
liam Bainbridge;  Stephen  Decatur;  Johnston 
Blakeley;  Isaac  Hull;  Jacob  Jones;  James  Law- 
rence; Charles  Morris;  David  Porter;  O.  H. 
Perry;  Thomas  Macdonough;  S.  C.  Reid; 
Charles  Stewart;  M.  C.  Perry;  D.  G.  Farra- 
gut;  D.  D.  Porter;  W.  B.  Cushing;  George 
Dewey;    R.    P.    Hobson 

Oman,  Charles 

Seven  Roman  statesmen  of.  the  later  re- 
public.   '02  Longmans  $1.75  923 

Contents:  Later  days  of  the  Roman  republic; 
Tiberius  Gracchus;  Caius  Gracchus;  From  the 
Gracchi  to  Sulla;  Sulla;  Crassus;  Cato;  Pom- 
pey;  Caesar 

"Makes  a  trite  subject  not  only  interesting, 
but   often   new,   by   his    insight,   lively   style   and 


BIOGRAPHY— Collective 


Oman,  Charles — Continued 

independence   of  his  judgments."      (Athenaeum) 
A    L.   A. 

"Midway  between  history  and  biography. 
.  .  .  One  of  the  most  readable  books  which 
have  recently  [1902]  appeared  on  the  subject  of 
the  later  Roman  republic."  (Nation,  1902) 
Pittsburgh 

Parkman,  Mary  Rosetta 

Fighters  for  peace,    il    '19  Century  $1.50 

Sketches  of  King  Albert  of  Belgium;  Marshall 
Joffre;  Captain  Guynemer;  Marshall  Foch;  Pre- 
mier Clemenceau;  David  Lloyd  George;  General 
Maude;  General  Allenby;  Victor  Emanuel  and 
his  armies;  General  Pershing;  Admiral  Beatty; 
President   Wilson 

Parry,  D.  H. 

Victoria  Cross:  its  heroes  and  their  valor, 
new  and  enl  ed  il  '13  Funk  $1.75      923 

"A  new  edition  of  a  work  originally  pub- 
lished in  1895.  Contains  forty-two  chapters 
which  accurately  describe  the  splendid  courage 
by  which,  thruout  all  the  British  campaigns  or 
engagements  from  1854  to  1904.  the  Victoria 
Cross  has  been  won.  A  list  of  its  recipients 
with  the  occasion  for  the  award  is  appended." 
Wis.   bul. 

Parton,  James 

Captains  of  industry.  2v  '84-'91  Hough- 
ton $1.35  923 

"Short  studies  of  over  seventy  men,  pre- 
senting chief  points  of  interest  in  each  man's 
career."      (N.Y.   state  lib.)   A.   L.  A. 

Radziwill,  Catherine   (Rzewuska),  princess 
Sovereigns  and  statesmen   of  Europe,    il 
'16  Funk  $2.50  923 

"Vivid,  clear  cut  portraits,  largely  personal 
estimates  of  the  movers  in  the  present  game 
of  war,  [1916],  kings,  statesmen  and  diplomats 
rather   than   fighters."      Cleveland 

Raymond,  E.  T. 

Uncensored  celebrities.    '19  Holt  $2.50 

923 

"Critical  studies  of  about  forty  prominent 
British  public  men,  among  them  being  the  prime 
minister,  Mr  Asquith,  Mr  Balfour,  Viscount 
Grey  of  Falloden,  Lord  Milner,  General  Smuts, 
Lord  Northcliffe,  Mr  Bonar  Law,  and  others." 
Brooklyn 

Strickland,  Agnes 

Lives  of  the  queens  of  England,  from  the 
Norman    conquest.    6v    (Bohn's    histor- 
ical lib.)  '93-'99  Macmillan  $10.50      923 
Volume   one   revised 

From  Matilda  of  Flanders  to  the  wives  of 
Henry  VIII 

Wilson,  James  Grant 

(ed.)  Presidents  of  the  United  States,  from 
1789-1914;  by  John  Fiske,  Carl  Schurz, 
Robert  C.  Winthrop,  George  Ticknor 
Curtis,  George  Bancroft,  John  Hay  and 
many  others.  4v  il  '14  Scribner  $7.50 

923 

Some  of  the  articles  were  written  originally 
for  Appleton's  "Cyclopedia  of  American  biogra- 
phy," while  others — particularly  the  later  ones 
— were   written    especially   for    this    work 

The  author  has  added  brief  notices  concern- 
ing the  women  who  have  reigned  in  the  White 
House    during    each    administration 

The  appendixes  contain  in  tabular  form  the 
cabinets  of  each  president  and  the  popular  and 
electoral   vote   for   each 

White,  Andrew  Dickson 

Seven  great  statesmen  in  the  warfare  of 

humanity  with  unreason.     '10  Century 

$3  923 

"Scholarly    and    inspiring    biographical    essays 


on  Sarpi,  Grotius,  Thomasius,  Turgot,  Stein, 
Cavour  and  Bismarck — men  who  waged  a  'war- 
fare of  humanity  with  unreason' — and  'especially 
to  be  studied  by  those  who  aspire  to  serve  their 
country   in  any  way.'  "     A.  L.   A.  sup. 

Wolf,  Simon 

Presidents   I   have  known    from   1860  to 
1918.    2d  ed  '18  S.  Wolf  $2.50  923 

"Personal  reminiscences,  not  only  of  the  pres- 
idents (beginning  with  Buchanan  and  ending 
with  Wilson),  but  also  of  some  of  the  leading 
men  in  Washington  official  life.  Illustrated." 
Brooklyn 

925    Science 

Ball,  Sir  Robert  Stawell 

Great  astronomers.  2d  ed  '07  Lippincott 
$1.75  925 

Contents:  Ptolemy;  Copernicus;  Tycho 
Brahe;  Galileo;  Kepler;  Isaac  Newton;  Flam- 
steed;  Halley;  Bradley;  William  Herschel;  Lap- 
lace; Brinkley;  John  Herschel;  The  Earl  of 
Rosse;  Airy;   Hamilton;   Le  Verrier;   Adams 

Gibson,  Charles  R. 

Heroes  of  science,    il  '12  Lippincott  $1.75 

925 

Mr  Gibson  gives  "an  account  of  the  lives, 
sacrifices,  successes  and  failures"  of  such  sci- 
entists as  Copernicus,  Galileo,  Newton,  Frank- 
lin,   Dalton,   Faraday,    Darwin    and   others 

"The  whole  field  of  science  is  well  covered, 
and  the  interdependence  of  the  various  learned 
men,  and  the  steady  advance  of  knowledge  from 
pre-Christian  times,  are  traced  right  up  to  the 
achievements  of  the  lights  of  science  who  have 
most  recently  left  us,  for  the  careers  of  the 
living   are   not   considered."     Athenaeum 

926    Useful  arts 

Hubert,  Philip  Gengembre,  jr. 

Inventors.     (Men    of   achievement)     new 
ed  Scribner  $1.50  926 

Contents:  Benjamin  Franklin;  Robert  Fulton; 
EH  Whitney;  Elias  Howe;  S.  F.  B.  Morse; 
Charles  Goodyear;  John  Ericsson;  C.  H.  Mc- 
Cormick;  T.  A.  Edison;  A.  G.  Bell;  American 
inventors,   past   and  present 

First    published    in    1896 

"Disappointments  and  triumphs,  daily  life 
and  personal  character,  with  something  concern- 
ing their    inventions."      A.   L.  A. 

lies,  George 

Leading  American  inventors,    il  '12  Holt 
$2  926 

"Sketches  of  the  lives  of  John  and  Robert 
Livingston  Stevens,  Robert  Fulton,  Eli  Whit- 
ney, Thomas  Blanchard,  Samuel  Morse,  Charles 
Goodyear,  John  Ericsson,  Cyrus  Hall  McCor- 
mick,  Christopher  Latham  Sholes,  Elias  Howe, 
Benjamin  Chew  Tilghman,  and  Ottmar  Mer- 
genthaler,  with  interesting  and  clear  descriptions 
of  their  inventions.  Portraits,  diagrams,  index." 
N.Y.  state  lib. 

Smiles,  Samuel 

Lives   of  the   engineers.    5v  new  rev  ed 
'05    Scribner  $7.50  926 

Contents:  vi,  Early  engineering;  Vermuyden; 
Myddelton;  Perry;  James  Brindley.  V2,  Har- 
bors, lighthouses,  bridges;  Smeaton  and  Ren- 
nie.  V3,  History  of  roads;  Metcalfe;  Telford. 
V4,  Steam  engine;  Boulton  and  Watt,  vs,  The 
locomotive;   George  and  Robert  Stephenson 

928    Literature.    Authors 

Books  that  some  readers  may  expect  to  find 
in  this  section  will  be  entered  in  the  Literature 
section   of   the    Standard   Catalog.      It   has   been 


10 


STANDARD    CATALOG 


Literature.     Authors  — Continued 

almost  impossible  to  draw  any  exact  line  of  de- 
markation  between  literary  criticism  and  literary 
biography.  The  compiler  has  tried  to  exclude 
from  this  section  of  the  Catalog  so-called  biog- 
raphies   which    are   mainly   criticism. 

Adams,    Oscar   Fay 

Dictionary  of  American  authors.  5th  ed 
rev  and  enl  to   '05  Houghton  '05  $4.50 

928 

"Brief  accounts  of  authors,  including  dates, 
biographic  and  critical  facts,  and  list  of  works. 
There  is  a  supplement  of  146  pages  containing 
more  than  2,800  additional  names.  This  is 
about  1,300  more  names  than  in  the  supple- 
ment  to   the    fourth   edition."      Mudge 

Allibone,   Samuel   Austin 

Critical  dictionary  of  English  literature 
and  British  and  American  authors,  liv- 
ing^and  deceased,  from  the  earliest  ac- 
counts to  the  latter  half  of  the  nine- 
teenth century.  5v  '91-'96  Lippincott 
$22.50  928 

Classified  subject   index 

"A  standard  work  very  useful  in  spite  of  the 
fact  that  it  is  not  entirely  accurate  and  so 
must  often  be  checked,  for  important  points,  by 
reference  to  some  other  authority.  Based  in 
part  upon  Watt's  'Bibliotheca  Britannica'  and 
reflects  Watt's  inaccuracies.  Arranged  alpha- 
betically by  authors,  giving  for  each  brief  bi- 
ographical sketch,  full  list  of  works  with  dates, 
and  references  to  critical  comments  or  reviews." 
Mudge 

Brailsford,   Henry  Noel 

Shelley,  Godwin  and  their  circle.  (Home 
university  lib.)    '13  Holt  60c  928 

Bibliography,  P252-4 

"A  study  of  the  influence  of  the  French  rev- 
olution on  English  political  and  social  ideals  as 
represented  by  Thomas  Paine,  William  Godwin, 
Shelley,  and  Mary  Wollstonecraft,  author  of 
the  'Vindication  of  the  rights  of  women.'  " 
Cleveland 

Cousin,  John  W. 

Short  biographical  dictionary  of  English 
literature.  (Everymans  lib.)  '12  Dutton 
70c;  lib.  binding  90c  928 

Emerson,  Edward  Waldo 

Early  years  of  the  Saturday  club,  1855- 
1870.   '18   Houghton  $7.50  928 

"Contains  memories  and  recollections  of  a 
bygone  Boston  that  are  a  part  of  our  literary 
history,  and  it  is  rich  in  pen  portraitures  of  the 
great  men  of  American  literature."  Boston 
Transcript 

Erskine,  John 

Leading  American  novelists,  il  '10  Holt 
$2  928 

"Biographical  and  critical  studies  of  Charles 
Brockden  Brown,  Cooper,  William  Gilmore 
Sims,  Hawthorne,  Harriet  Beecher  Stowe  and 
Bret   Harte."     A.  L.  A.  sup. 

Fields,  James  Thomas 

Yesterdays  with  authors;  illus.  with  pho- 
togravure portraits  and  autograph  let- 
ters. 1900  Houghton  $2.25  928 

The  Boston  publisher's  personal  reminiscences 
of  Thackeray,  Hawthorne,  Dickens,  Words- 
worth,   Miss    Mitford,    and   Barry    Cornwall 

Frank,  Maude  Morrison 

Great  authors  in  their  youth,  il  '15  Holt 
$1.35  928 

Contents:  Walter  Scott;  Robert  Louis  Stev- 
enson; William  Makepeace  Thackeray;  Charles 
Dickens;  Robert  Browning;  Elizabeth  Barrett 
Browning;  Alfred  Tennyson;  Charlotte  Bronte; 
Charles   Lamb;   Jane   Austen;   John    Ruskin 


Gosse,  Edmund  William 

Portraits  and  sketches.    '12  Scribner  $2 

928 

Contents:  Swinburne;  Philip  James  Bailey; 
"Orion"  Home;  Aubrey  De  Vere;  A  first  sight 
of  Tennyson;  Visit  to  Whittier;  The  author  of 
"John  Inglesant";  Mandell  Creighton;  Andrew 
Lang;  Wolcott  Balestier;  Carl  Snoilsky; 
Eugene  Melchior  de  Vogue;   Andre   Gide 

"Vivid,  pictorial  studies  from  personal  ac- 
quaintance, of  literary  men  of  varying  distinc- 
tion."    N.Y.  state  lib. 

Higginson,  Thomas  Wentworth 

Carlyle's  laugh  and  other  surprises.  '09 
Houghton  $2.25  928 

"Twenty-four  essays,  mainly  illuminating 
'footnote'  sketches  of  literary  friends  and  con- 
temporaries, including  Thoreau,  Bancroft,  Ed- 
mund Clarence  Stedman,  Emily  Dickinson,  Julia 
Ward  Howe,  William  J.  Rolfe,  and  others,  and 
of  an  earlier  generation,  Cooper  and  Charles 
Brockden  Brown."  (N.Y.  state  lib.)  A.  L.  A. 
sup. 

Johnson,  Samuel 

Six  chief  lives  from  Johnson's  Lives  of 
the  poets,  with  Macaulay's  Life  of 
Johnson;  ed.  with  a  preface  and  notes 
by  Matthew  Arnold.  '92  Macmillan 
$1.50  '  928 

Contents:  Life  of  Johnson;  Milton;  Dryden; 
Swift;   Addison;   Pope;    Gray 

Kernahan,  Coulson 

In  good  company.  '17  Lane  $1.50  928 
"Short,  readable  personal  appreciations  and 
recollections  of  Swinburne,  Lord  Roberts, 
Stephen  Phillips,  Edward  Whymper,  Oscar 
Wilde,  S.  J.  Stone,  and  five  chapters  on  Watts- 
Dunton,  whom  the  author  knew  very  well." 
A.    L.    A.    bkl. 

Lee,  Sir  Sidney 

Great  Englishmen  of  the  sixteenth  cen- 
tury, il  '04  Scribner  $1.75  928 
"Studies  of  the  characters  and  careers  of 
More,  Sidney,  Raleigh,  Spenser,  Bacon  and 
Shakespeare,  with  a  chapter  on  the  spirit  of  the 
sixteenth  century."  (N.Y.  state  lib.)  A.  L.  A. 
sup. 

Somerville,  Edith  Anna  CEnone,  and  Mar- 
tin, Violet   (Martin  Ross,  pseud.) 
Irish  memories,  il  '18  Longmans  $4.20 

928 

"Delightful  volume  of  reminiscences,  letters 
and  family  history  of  the  two  cousins  whose  lit- 
erary partnership  was  productive  of  so  many 
inimitable  tales  of  Irish  life.  Both  writers  were 
great-granddaughters  of  the  'silver-tongued'  and 
'incorruptible'  Chief  Justice  Bushe,  of  Ireland, 
from  whom  besides  a  love  of  the  arts,  they  in- 
herited a  gift  of  vivid  and  racy  speech.  Their 
fruitful  collaboration  extending  over  almost 
thirty  years,  was  broken  in  1915  by  the  death  of 
Martin  Ross.  Altho  her  name  appears  on  the 
title  page,  the  book  is  really  a  memoir  of  her 
by  her  cousin."     Pittsburgh 

Stephen,  Sir  Leslie 

Studies  of  a  biographer.  4v  '98-'02  Put- 
nam $6  928 
Contents:  vi,  National  biography;  Evolution 
of  editors;  John  Byrom;  Johnsoniana;  Gibbon's 
autobiography;  Arthur  Young;  Wordsworth's 
youth.  V2,  Story  of  Scott's  ruin;  Importation 
of  German;  Matthew  Arnold;  Jowett's  life; 
Oliver  Wendell  Holmes;  Life  of  Tennyson; 
Pascal.  V3,  The  Browning  letters;  John  Donne; 
John  Ruskin;  William  Godwin's  novels;  Walter 
Bagehot;  Thomas  Henry  Huxley;  James  An- 
thony Froude;  In  praise  of  walking.  v4,  Shake- 
speare as  a  man;  Southey's  letters;  New  lights 
on  Milton;  Emerson;  Anthony  Trollope;  Robert 
Louis  Stevenson;  The  cosmopolitan  spirit  in  lit- 
erature 


BIOGRAPHY— Individual 


11 


Symons,  Arthur 

Figures  of  several  centuries.    '16  Dutton 
$4  928 

Contents:  Saint  Augustine;  Charles  Lamb; 
Villon;  Casanova  'at  Dux;  John  Donne;  Emily 
Bronte;  Edgar  Allen  Poe;  Thomas  Lovel  Bed- 
does;  Gustave  Flaubert;  George  Meredith  as  a 
poet;  Algernon  Charles  Swinburne;  Dante  Ga- 
briel Rossetti;  Note  on  the  genius  of  Thomas 
Hardy;  Leon  Cladel;  Henrik  Ibsen;  Joris-Karl 
Huysmans;  Two  symbolists;  Charles  Baudelaire; 
Walter  Pater;  The  Goncourts;  Coventry  Pat- 
more;    Sarojini   Naidu;    Welsh   poetry 

"Twenty-three  brief  essays,  markedly  beau- 
tiful in  style  and  rare  in  their  critical  acumen. 
The  selection  ranges  from  Augustine  to  Sarojini 
Naidu,  the  genius  of  the  poet-critic  endowing 
the  work  of  some  of  the  authors  with  a 
glamour  which  a  perusal  of  their  work  dispels." 
Cleveland 

Vedder,  Henry  Clay 

American    writers    of    today.     '94    Silver 
$1.50  928 

Contents:  E.  C.  Stedman;  Francis  Parkman; 
W.  D.  Howell;  Henry  James;  C.  D.  Warner; 
T.  B.  Aldrich;  Mark  Twain;  F.  M.  Crawford; 
F.  H.  Burnett;  Charles  Egbert  Craddock;  E.  S. 
Phelps;  A.  D.  T.  Whitney;  Bret  Harte;  E.  E. 
Hale;  Edward  Eggleston;  G.  W.  Cable;  R.  H. 
Stoddard;  F.  R.  Stockton;  Joaquin  Miller 

Vincent,  Leon  Henry 

American  literary  masters.    '06  Houghton 
$2.25  928 

"Biographic  and  critical  studies  of  nineteen 
men  of  letters  from  Washington  Irving  to  Walt 
Whitman,  each  of  whom  produced  some  notable 
book  between  1809  and  i860."  (N.Y.  state 
lib.)    A.    L.    A.    sup. 

Dandies     and     men     of    letters.       il     '13 
Houghton  $3.50  928 

"Twelve  sprightly  biographical  sketches  of 
English  dandies,  or  men  of  letters  inclining  to 
be  dandies,  of  the  early  nineteenth  century 
and  thereabout.  They  are  written  in  an  in- 
formal, anecdotal  vein,  and  show  evidence  of 
considerable  research  into  little-known  aspects 
of  such  well  known  authors  as  Byron,  Disraeli, 
and  Bulwer-Lytton.  Others  treated  are  Brum- 
mel,  D'Orsay,  Samuel  Rogers,  Thomas  Moore, 
Thomas  Hope,  Beckford,  Peacock,  Charles  Kirk- 
patrick  Sharpe  and  Henry  Crabb  Robinson. 
Portraits  of  each."     A.   L.   A.  bkl. 


92      Individual  biography 


Lives  of  individuals  are  arranged  alpha- 
betically under  the  names  of  the  persons  written 
about. 

Abbott,  Lyman 

Reminiscences,  il.   '15  Houghton  $4        92 

Bibliography,  pis 

Appeared  in  the  Outlook,  V106-10,  Jan.  24, 
1914-Aug.  25,   1915 

"An  intimately  personal  record  of  Dr  Abbott's 
service  as  preacher,  author,  and  editor,  reflect- 
ing the  religious,  political,  economic  and  social 
development  in  America  during  his  life  of  nearly 
eighty  years."    N.Y.  state  lib. 

"These  papers  are  reminiscences,  not  history. 
They  lay  no  claim  to  accuracy.  I  have  never 
kept  a  diary  or  journal.  I  have  always  been 
more  interested  in  what  is  going  to  happen  to- 
morrow than  in  what  happened  yesterday.  .  .  . 
The  reader  will  find  few  dates  and  many  in- 
accuracies in  these  papers.  They  are  simply  a 
record  of  the  impressions  left  on  the  mind  of  a 
man  who  has  passed  the  three-score-years-and-ten 
as  he  endeavors  to  recall  some  of  the  personages 
and  incidents  of  a  somewhat  busy  but  not  ad- 
venturous  life."      Chapter  one 


Abdul  Hamid  II,  dethroned  sultan  of  the 
Turks 

Pears,  Sir  Edwin.  Life  of  Abdul  Hamid, 
(Makers  of  the  nineteenth  century)  '17 
Holt  $2.25  92 

"An  authoritative  and  popular  history  of  the 
administration  of  the  deposed  Sultan  of  Turkey, 
'whose  title  to  fame  is  that  he  was  the  maker  of 
ruin  for  his  country.'  The  chapters  are  topical, 
which  makes  useful  the  chronological  table  of 
events  at  the  end  of  the  book.  The  author  is 
English  and  weaves  into  the  history  the  part 
played   by   British   diplomacy."    A.   L.   A.  bkl. 

"Will  be  the  standard  biography  of  the  worst 
of  all  the   Sultans."      Spectator   119:717 

Adam,  Mme  Juliette  (Lamber) 

Stephens,  Winifred.  Madame  Adam  (Ju- 
liette Lamber),  la  Grande  Franchise, 
from  Louis  Philippe  until  1917.  il  '17 
Dutton     $5  92 

"A  delightful  biography  of  the  warmhearted, 
brilliant  French  woman  who  played  so  considerable 
a  part  in  French  journalism  and  politics  from  the 
days  of  the  second  empire.  As  the  mistress  of 
a  leading  political  salon,  as  the  founder  and  edi- 
tor for  twenty  years  of  La  Nouvelle  revue 
(1879-99),  Mme  Adam  did  much  to  consolidate 
the  third  republic  and  to  stimulate  the  revival 
of  the  French  national  spirit.  She  numbered  as 
her  friends  Gambetta  and  Thiers  among  French 
ministers,  and  such  eminent  writers  as  George 
Sand,  Flaubert,  Victor  Hugo,  Pierre  Loti  and 
Maurice  Barres."    Pittsburgh 

"She  is  here  presented  to  us  by  one  who  has 
lectured  and  written  a  good  deal  about  France 
and  French  history,  and  who  has  had  the  ad- 
vantage of  Mme  Adam's  personal  acquaintance 
and  interest  in  the  present  work.  Her  main  au- 
thority, however,  is,  of  course  Mme  Adam's 
seven  volumes  of  'Souvenirs.'  "  Times  (Lon- 
don) lit.  sup. 

Adams,  Mrs  Abigail  (Smith) 

Richards,  Mrs  L.  H.  Abigail  Adams  and 
her  times.    '17  Appleton    $1.35  92 

"Well  written  account  of  a  lovable  and  in- 
dividual woman,  the  wife  of  the  second  presi- 
dent of  the  United  States  and  the  mother  of 
John  Quincy  Adams.  Contains  extracts  from  let- 
ters and  from  John  Adams'  personal  diary." 
'  Pittsburgh 

"It  makes  more  vivid  the  background  of  the 
times  than  the  figure  of  Mrs  Adams  herself." 
Cleveland 

Adams,  Charles  Francis,  1807-1886 

Adams,  C.  F.,  jr.  Charles  Francis  Adams, 
by  his  son.  (American  statesmen)  1900 
Houghton   $1.35  92 

"Tells  little  of  personal  traits.  Narration  of 
services  while  minister  to  England;  sheds  valu- 
able light  on  relations  between  England  and 
America  during  the  Civil  war."     N.Y.  state  lib. 

Adams,  Charles  Francis,  1835-1915 

Charles  Francis  Adams,  1835-1915;  an  au- 
tobiography. '16  Houghton  $3.50  92 

"Record  of  a  life  notably  successful  in  busi- 
ness, public  service,  and  historical  writing,  given 
a  sombre  tinge  by  his  critical  attitude  towards 
his  father,  himself  and  some  of  his  contempo- 
raries. 'Interesting  as  a  Human  document  and 
for  sidelights  on  famous  personages  and  history." 
N.Y.  state  lib. 

Contains  also  a  memorial  address,  delivered 
Nov.   17,   1915,  by  H.   C.   Lodge 

Adams,  Henry  Brooks 

Education  of  Henry  Adams;  an  autobiog- 
raphy; with  an  introd.  by  H.  C.  Lodge. 
'18    Houghton   $5  92 

"A  type  of  autobiography  which  seems  to  stand 
absolutely  in  a  niche  of  its  own.  Its  wise 
philosophy  of  life,  its  deep  understanding  of  hu- 
man nature,  its  pervading  charm  of  style  and  of 
mood,   will  surely  entitle  it   to   an   abiding  place 


12 


STANDARD    CATALOG 


Adams,  Henry  Brooks — Continued 

among  those  rare  volumes  that  are  the  perennial 
joy  of  cultured  minds."  F.  T.  Cooper  in 
Publishers'    weekly    94:1307 

"An  important  autobiography,  interesting  in 
itself  and  because  it  is  a  criticism  of  cherished 
American  institutions  as  they  affected  a  brilliant 
man  who  had  every  advantage  they  could  give. 
His  association  with  his  father  in  England  dur- 
ing the  Civil  war  and  his  lifetime  acquaintance 
with  men  and  affairs  here  and  abroad  make  the 
record  valuable  as  history.  Privately  printed  in 
1905;  it  was  written  as  a  sequel  to  his  'Mont- 
Saint  Michel  and  Chartres'."     A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

Adams,  John 

Morse,  J.  T.,  jr.  John  Adams.  (American 
statesmen)    1900  Houghton  $1.35        92 

"Graphic  portraiture  and  excellent  study  of 
our  politics  in  the  days  of  Adams,  of  the  for- 
tunes of  the  Federal  party  and  attitude  of  its  two 
hostile  forces,  represented  by  Adams  and  Ham- 
ilton."   (Hartford  courant)  A.  L.  A. 

Adams,    John,    and    Adams,    Mrs    Abigail 
(Smith) 

Familiar  letters  of  John  Adams  and  his 
wife  Abigail  Adams,  during  the  Revolu- 
tion, with  a  memoir  of  Mrs  Adams.  '76 
Houghton    $2.25  92 

"Takes  its  place  by  the  side  of  the  most 
valuable  documents  of  our  revolutionary  his- 
tory."   (Nation)  A.  L.  A. 

Adams,  Mrs  John.     See  Adams,  A.  S. 

Adams,  John  Quincy 

Morse,  J.  T.,  jr.  Joh»  Quincy  Adams. 
(American  statesmen)  '95  Houghton 
$1.35  92 

"Trustworthy  in  details;  chief  merit  in  its 
comprehension  of  essential  character  of  Adams 
and  its  sympathetic  interpretation  of  the  man 
and  his  work."    A.  L.  A. 

Adams,  Samuel 

Hosmer,  J.  F.  Samuel  Adams.  (American 
statesmen)    '99  Houghton  $1.35  92 

"  'Interesting  and  appreciative,  setting  forth 
fairly  the  man,  his  work  and  times.'  (Nation) 
Furnishes  substantially  a  compact  history  of  oc- 
casions and  manner  of  opening  of  Revolution- 
ary war."    A.  L.  A. 

Addison,  Joseph 

Courthope,  W.  J.  Addison.  (English  men 
of  letters)    '94   Harper   75c  92 

Agassiz,  Louis 

Agassiz,  Mrs  E.  C.  Louis  Agassiz;  his 
life  and  correspondence.  '93  Houghton 
$3„     .      .  92 

"This  biography  by  his  wife  gives  pictures 
of  his  early  life  in  Switzerland,  tells  of  his 
friendships  with  Cuvier,  Humboldt  and  other 
distinguished  scientists,  of  his  scientific  work, 
particularly  in  geology  and  ichthyology,  of  his 
work  at  Harvard,  including  the  founding  of  the 
Agassiz   museum."     Pittsburgh 

Aksakov,  Sergiei  Timofieevich 

A  Russian  gentleman;  tr.  from  the  Rus- 
sian by  J.  D.  Duff.   '17  Longmans  $2.40 

Russian  classic  published  in  1856  and  trans- 
lated now  for  the  first  time  into  English 

"Half  imaginary  memoirs  centering  about  the 
author's  paternal  grandfather  and  describing  his 
parents'  courtship  and  early  married  life.  The 
narrative  closes  with  the  day  of  the  writer's  own 
birth.  It  is  accepted  in  Russia  as  a  faithful  pic- 
ture of  the  conditions  which  prevailed  in  the 
district  of  Orenburg  under  Catherine  the  Great." 
Pittsburgh 


A  Russian  schoolboy;  tr.  from  the  Rus- 
sian by  J.  D.  Duff.  '17  Longmans    $2.40 

92 

"The  third  volume  chronologically,  of  the  au- 
thor's recollections,  covering  his  school  and  home 
life  from  his  eighth  thru  his  fifteenth  year,  1807- 
1815.  It  is  a  simple,  quiet  narrative  but  one  of 
absorbing  interest."     Cleveland 

Contains  numerous  pictures  of  peasant  life, 
and  open-air  scenes  of  Virgilian  beauty 

Years  of  my  childhood;  tr.  from  the  Rus- 
sian by  J.  D.  Duff,   il  '16  Longmans   $4 

92 

"Tho  this  account  of  what  he  saw  and  felt 
between  the  ages  of  five  and  eight  was  not  writ- 
ten until  the  year  before  his  death  at  sixty- 
seven,  it  takes  none  of  its  color  from  later  ex- 
perience. We  have  what  happened  to  the  child, 
told  so  well  indeed,  that  it  has  become  a  Rus- 
sian classic,  but  giving  us  only  a  child's  account 
of  what  he  saw,  felt  and  thought."  (Spectator) 
Cleveland 

This  childhood  began  in  eastern  Russia  in 
1791;  part  of  it  was  spent  on  large  estates  and 
the  rest  in  a  provincial  town 

Albert  I,  king  of  the  Belgians 

MacDonnell,  J.  de  C.  Life  of  His  Majesty 
Albert,  king  of  the  Belgians.  '15  Stokes 
$1  92 

"Mr  MacDonnell,  who  writes  frankly  as  a 
Royalist  and  a  Roman  Catholic,  has  had  the  ad- 
vantage of  a  residence  in  Brussels,  and  we 
gather  that  his  work  was  submitted  to  the  King 
and  passed  by  him  for  publication."  Spectator 
114=547 

"Tho  fragmentary  and  quite  eulogistic,  the 
book  is  a  good  one  of  the  popular  kind.  No  in- 
dex."   A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

Alcott,  Louisa  May 

Cheney,  Mrs  E.  L.,  ed.  Louisa  May  Al- 
cott; her  life,  letters  and  journals.  1900 
Little     $1.50  92 

"Home  life  of  the  author  of  'Little  women,' 
her  experiences  as  an  army  nurse,  struggles  as 
an  author,  etc."     (N.Y.  state  lib.)   A.   L.  A. 

See  also  "Louisa  May  Alcott,  dreamer  and 
worker,"  by  Belle  Moses,  1909,  Appleton,  $1.35, 
written  especially  for  girls,  which  will  also  in- 
terest many  adults 

Aldrich,  Thomas  Bailey 

Greenslet,  Ferris.  Life  of  Thomas  Bailey 
Aldrich.    il   '08   Houghton   $3.50  92 

"  'Mr  Greenslet  has  brought  to  his  work 
delicacy  and  reticence,  together  with  a  skill  in 
words  that  reproduces  something  of  the  charm 
of  one  who  made  refinement  the  end  of  all  his 
labor.  He  tells  just  enough  of  the  child's  sur- 
roundings at  Portsmouth,  of  the  clerk  and  youth- 
ful editor  in  New  York;  he  follows  the  man 
sympathetically  thru  his  Boston  years  of  pros- 
perous toil  and  golden  ease,  to  the  honored 
close.  It  is  a  happy  life  gracefully  told.'  (Con- 
densed from  Nation) 

There  is  abundant  proof  of  his  pleasant 
humor  in  these  pages.  Aldrich's  letters  are  full 
of  it.  He  is  not  an  artificial  'literary'  letter- 
writer;  his  merit  is  that  he  is  natural,  spon- 
taneous and  always  light  of  wit.  'I  was  fifty- 
nine  yesterday,'  he  writes.  'It  is  unpleasant  to 
be  fifty-nine;  but  it  would  be  unpleasanter  not 
to  be,  having  got  started.'  "  (Athenaeum)  Pitts- 
burgh 

Alexandra  Feodorovna,  ex-czarina  of  Rus- 
sia 

Mouchanow,    Marfa.  My    empress.     '18 

Lane  $2.50  92 

"Twenty-three  years  of  intimate  life  with  the 
empress  of  all  the  Russias  from  her  marriage  to 
the   day   of  her   exile."      Subtitle 

Pictures  the  Czarina  as  wife,  mother  and 
empress.     Does  not  touch  on  political  affairs 


BIOGRAPHY— Individual 


13 


Alexander  the  Great 

Wheeler,  B.  I.  Alexander  the  Great;  the 
merging  of  the  East  and  West  in  uni- 
versal history.  (Heroes  of  the  nations) 
1900  Putnam  $1.50  92 

"Story  of  Alexander's  aims  and  achievements 
told  with  considerable  detail  and  admirable 
clearness."      (Nation)     A.    L.    A. 

See  also  Hogarth's  "Philip  and  Alexander  of 
Macedon" 

Alfred  the  Great 

Besant,  Sir  Walter.  Story  of  King  Al- 
fred. (Library  of  useful  stories)  '01 
Appleton   50c  92 

"Best  brief  history  of  the  career  of  Alfred 
and  the  position  of  England  in  the  9th  century." 
(Athenaeum)   A.  L.  A. 

Plummer,  Charles.  Life  and  times  of 
Alfred  the  Great.  (Ford  lectures)  '02 
Oxford  $2  92 

Appendix:  Sermon  on  the  death  of  Queen 
Victoria 

Bibliography,  pref.   pio-11 

"Tells  everything  known  about  Alfred,  with 
abundant  references  to  previous  discussions  of 
debatable  matters  and  acute  comments  on  all 
points  of  controversy."    (Nation)    A.  L.  A. 

See  also  B.  A.  Lees'  scholarly  study,  based 
largely  on  primary  sources,  published  by  Put- 
nam, 1915,  $1.90 

Allier,  Roger 

Allier,  Raoul,  and  Allier,  Mrs  Raoul. 
Roger  Allier;  tr.  by  H.  H.  King.  '19 
Association   press   $1.25  92 

"This  volume  is  a  family  book,  not  intended 
for  publicity,  written  to  preserve  the  memory 
of  a  young  man,  Roger  Allier,  a  subaltern  in  the 
Chasseurs  Alpins,  who  in  the  first  year  of  this 
great  war,  with  quiet  heroism,  laid  down  his 
life  for  France.  The  book  is  by  his  father,  a 
professor  of  Protestant  theology,  in  Paris.  .  .  . 
The  great  interest  of  the  book  lies  in  the  fact 
that  it  vividly  sets  forth  the  moral  preparation 
which  made  this  youth  and  his  fellows  able  to 
check  the  flood  of  German  aggression  in  the 
first  two  months  of  the  war."  Theodore  Roose- 
velt in  Introduction 

Amiel,  Henri  Frederic 

Journal  intime;  tr.  with  introd.  by  Mrs 
Humphry  Ward,  new  ed  '15  Macmillan 
$1.50  92 

"Amiel  has  been  much  compared  with  Ober- 
mann  and  Maurice  de  GueVin,  but  he  is  far  nearer 
to  us  than  either.  .  .  .  There  was  in  Amiel  that 
deeper  seriousness  which  we  characterize  by  the 
word  Puritan.  It  is  for  that  type  of  religious 
mind,  of  which  there  are  very  many  among 
English  speaking  peoples,  even  tho  they  disavow 
the  name,  that  the  book  will  have  the  strongest 
attraction."      (Nation)   Pittsburgh 

Andersen,  Hans  Christian 

Story  of  my  life.  71  Houghton  $1.25  92 
"The  absolute  candor  with  which  Andersen 
lays  bare  his  soul,  the  complete  intentional  or 
unintentional  self-revelation,  gives  a  psycholog- 
ical value  to  the  book  which  no  mere  literary 
grace  could  bestow.  .  .  .  Andersen  remained,  until 
the  day  of  his  death,  a  child.  His  innocence  was 
more  than  virginal;  his  unworldliness  simply  in- 
conceivable. ...  He  conceived  of  his  life  as 
a  fairy-tale.  .  .  .  The  feeling  of  the  marvellous 
pervades  the  book  from  beginning  to  end." 
(H.  H.  Boyesen)  Pittsburgh 

The  autobiography  brings  the  narrative  down 
to  1869.  An  account  of  his  later  years  will  be 
found  in  Bain's  "Hans  Christian  Andersen," 
published  by  Dodd  and  now  out  of  print. 

Antin,  Mary 

Promised  land.  '12  Houghton  $2  92 

Appeared  in  the  Atlantic  monthly,  v  108-9, 
October  19 11  to  April  19 12 

"Autobiography  of  an  immigrant  who  was  born 


less  than  thirty  years  ago  (1912)  in  Polotzk, 
Russia,  a  town  in  the  Jewish  pale,  and  spent  her 
childhood  there.  Her  family  being  driven  by  the 
pressure  of  poverty  to  immigrate,  when  she  was 
twelve  years  old  she  was  brought  to  America, 
where  she  made  a  brilliant  progress  thru  the 
public  schools  of  Boston  and  thru  Barnard  Col- 
lege. The  story  of  her  life  is  absorbing  in  its 
human  significance,  remarkable  for  its  literary 
distinction  and  convincingly  hopeful  in  its  view 
of  the  immigrant  problem  in  America."  Pitts- 
burgh 

Arblay,  Mme  Frances   (Burney)   d' 

Diary  and  letters  (1778-1840)  with  notes 
by  W.  C.  Ward,  and  prefaced  by  Lord 
Macaulay's  essay.  3v  (Chandos  clas- 
sics) Warne  $2.80  92 

"Fanny  Burney's  social  advantages  were  great 
and  the  years  of  intercourse  with  brilliant  peo- 
ple gave  her  unusual  knowledge  of  the  world. 
Shortly  after  the  publication  of  'Evelina,'  she 
became  keeper  of  the  robes  to  Queen  Charlotte. 
Her  'Diary  and  letters'  gives  us  one  of  the  best 
historical  pictures  of  that  time,  the  everyday  life 
at  court,  King  George  Ill's  increasing  insanity, 
and  her  own  story  of  discomfort  in  uncongenial 
companionship. 

'As  a  diarist  Miss  Burney  is  with  Pepys  and 
Evelyn,  as  a  letter  writer  with  Walpole  and 
Chesterfield.  And  unlike  all  of  these,  except 
Horace,  she  is  a  novelist  as  well.'  (George 
Saintsbury) 

Some  readers  may  prefer  the  selections  from 
her  diary  and  other  writings,  edited  by  L.  B. 
Seeley  and  entitled  'Fanny  Burney  and  her 
friends.'  "      Pittsburgh 

Temporarily   out   of   print 

Another  delightfully  written  book  is  Con- 
stance Hill's  "Fanny  Burney  at  the  court  of 
Queen  Charlotte,"   19 12,  Lane,  $5 

Arnold,  Benedict 

Stimson,  F.  J.  (J.  S.  of  Dale,  pseud.) 
My  story;  being  the  memoirs  of  Bene- 
dict Arnold,    il  '17  Scribner  $2  92 

"Author  and  publisher  have  given  to  this  book 
every  mark  of  a  genuine  autobiographical  work, 
yet  have  made  no  pretense  that  it  is  other  than 
a  work  of  fiction.  It  purports  to  be  the  life 
story  of  Benedict  Arnold,  written  by  his  own 
hand,  with  tHe  purpose  of  justifying  his  career 
in  the  eyes  of  the  British  king.  Events  of  his 
public  and  private  life  are  closely  followed." 
Book   rev.    digest 

"Tho  presented  in  the  guise  of  a  novel,  one  of 
the  most  important  as  well  as  most  graphic  his- 
torical books  of  the  year,  (1917)."  Springfield 
Republican,   November   18,   19 17 

Arnold,    Matthew 

Letters,  1848-88;  ed.  by  G.  W.  E.  Russell. 
1900   Macmillan    $2.25  92 

"The  greater  part  of  these  letters  are  ad- 
dressed to  the  members  of  the  family,  whence 
their  perfect  frankness  and  absence  of  posing 
The  early  letters  to  his  elder  sister  are  full  of 
his  reading  and  political  views.  After  his  mar- 
riage they  give  us  many  details  of  his  work  ana 
wanderings  in  inspecting  schools.  Still  later  his 
visits  to  the  continent  give  occasion  for  descrip- 
tions of  places  and  vivacious  sketches  of  ad- 
venture. The  playfulness  and  tenderness  of  his 
nature  are  revealed  in  his  allusions  to  his  chil- 
dren. Above  all  the  letters  contribute  toward  an 
appreciation  of  Arnold's  character,  opinions  and 
literary  work. 

'These  letters  are  a  gift  of  sunshine  to  the 
world.  ...  In  his  published  writings  there  were 
at  times  a  not  unbecoming  hauteur,  a  happy 
malice  of  the  pen,  and  even  something  which, 
while  really  dexterity  in  saying  things  difficult  to 
utter,  might  be  mistaken  for  affectation.  In 
these  letters  a  more  intimate  side  of  his  charac- 
ter is  revealed  to  the  public;  they  are  abso- 
lutely simple  and  real;  wholly  free  from  strain; 
rich  in  the  temper  of  enjoyment;  unfailing  in 
the  spirit  of  genuine  affection;   and  behind  their 


14 


STANDARD    CATALOG 


Arnold,  Matthew  — Continued 

kindness  and  their  brightness  we  can  discern 
strength,  and  even  something  of  unostentatious 
heroism;  loyalty  to  duty;  loyalty  to  truth;  loy- 
alty to  an  ideal  of  life.'  "  (Edward  Dowden) 
Pittsburgh 

Arnold,  Thomas,  and  Arnold,  Matthew 
Fitch,  J.  G.    Thomas  and  Matthew  Arnold 
and   their  influence   on   English  educa- 
tion.    (Great    educators)     '97    Scribner 
$1.25  92 

"The  author  of  this  biography  was  a  colleague 
of  Matthew  Arnold  in  educational  work,  and  he 
aims  to  present  those  characteristics  of  both 
father  and  son  which  are  of  special  interest  to 
teachers."     Pittsburgh 

Audubon,  John  James 

Life  and  adventures  of  Audubon  the  nat- 
uralist; ed.  by  Robert  Buchanan. 
(Everyman's  library)  '13  Dutton  70c; 
lib.  binding  90c  92 

Consists   chiefly   of  extracts   from  his   diary 
Bibliography    of    Robert    Buchanan,    P13;    bib- 
liography of  John  James  Audubon,  pn 

"Contains  an  introduction  by  John  Bur- 
roughs in  which  he  speaks  of  Audubon  as  'One 
of  the  most  striking  figures  in  our  history,  while 
the  service  he  has  rendered  to  ornithology  sur- 
passes perhaps  the  work  of  any  other  one  man 
who  ever  lived.'  "    Pratt  quarterly 

Audubon,  Mrs  L.  B.     Life  of  John  James 
Audubon     the     naturalist.        (American 
men  of  energy)  1900  Putnam  $1.50      92 
Short  biography    written   in    1867 

Herrick,  F.  H.  Audubon  the  naturalist;  a 
history  of  his  life  and  time.  2v  il  '17 
Appleton   $7.50  92 

Bibliography,   2:401-56 

Appendix  contains  many  hitherto  unpublished 
documents 

"A  notable  biography  containing  a  wealth  of 
interesting  new  material,  particularly  on  Audu- 
bon's boyhood  in  France  and  experiences  in  the 
West.  Combines  scholarliness  with  a  popular 
style  and  is  enhanced  by  many  fine  illustrations. 
The  author  is  professor  of  biology  at  Western 
Reserve  university  and  is  himself  an  authority 
on  ornithology."     Cleveland 

See  also  "Audubon  and  his  journals,"  ed.  by 
M.  R.  Audubon,   1897,  Scribner,  2v.,  $7.50 

Augustine,  Saint,  bishop  of  Hippo 

Confessions  of  St  Augustine;  tr.  by  E.  B. 
Pusey.  (Everyman's  library)  '09  Dut- 
ton 70c;  lib.  binding  90c  92 

"These  confessions  were  written  at  the  end  of 
the  fourth  century  by  the  most  distinguished  of 
the  Latin  fathers  as  a  revelation  of  his  spiritual 
experience.  They  have  been  a  source  of  re- 
ligious inspiration  thru  the  centuries."  Pratt 
alcove 

The  Latin  text  with  parallel  English  transla- 
tion is  published  by  Putnam  in  the  Loeb  clas- 
sical   library,    2v,    $3.60 

Augustus,   Caius   Octavius 

Firth,  J.  B.  Augustus  Caesar  and  the  or- 
ganization of  the  empire  of  Rome. 
(Heroes  of  the  nations)  '03  Putnam 
$1.50  92 

"A  volume  of  very  solid  worth  .  .  .  the  only 
biography  of  Augustus  in  the  English  language." 
(Nation,    1909)     Pittsburgh 

Austen,  Jane 

Austen-Leigh,  William,  and  R.  A.     Jane 

Austen,   her   life   and   letters;   a   family 

record,    il  '13     Dutton    $3.50  92 

Works   referred   to,   pio;   Chronology  of  Jane 

Austen's  life,  p  13-15;      Bibliography,  P421-8 

"By  the  son  and  grandson  of  James  Edward 
Austen-Leigh,    a    nephew    of    Jane    Austen    and 


author  of  the  memoir  published  in  1869.  (Mac- 
millan,  1906,  Eversley  series).  The  present  work 
is  a  careful  rearrangement  of  her  letters  with 
connecting  comment  and  explanation  and  some 
added  material  on  her  social  and  family  life." 
Cleveland 

Cornish,  F.  W.  Jane  Austen.  (English 
men  of  letters)  '13  Macmillan  $1  92 
"The  two  biographical  chapters  are  excellent, 
saying  neatly  and  concisely  all  that  need  be  said. 
The  comments  are  to  the  point;  those  devoted 
to  the  novels  are  apt  in  description  and  criticism, 
and  include  some  timely  corrections  of  popular 
misconceptions.  The  last  chapter  is  somewhat 
disappointing  in  that  it  gives  no  details  of  the 
style,  which  is  surely  a  chief  merit  of  the 
novels."  (Condensed  from  Athenaeum)  Pitts- 
burgh 

Smith,  Goldwin.  Life  of  Jane  Austen. 
(Great  writers)   '90  Scribner  $1.40       92 

Bibliography,   apx.   pi-5 

"The  first  and  best  chapter  contains  an  excel- 
lent sketch  of  Jane  Austen's  life;  the  other  chap- 
ters analyze  her  novels  with  delicate  taste  and 
fine  critical  faculty."    (Athenaeum)   Pittsburgh 

Avary,  Mrs  Myrta  Lockett,  ed. 

A  Virginia  girl  in  the  Civil  war,  1861-65. 
'03  Appleton  $1.50  92 

"The  thrilling  experiences  of  the  young  wife 
of  a  Confederate  officer  related  dramatically  and 
with  humor.  As  interesting  as  a  novel  in  its 
true  account  of  adventures  and  privations,  but 
it  is  nevertheless  a  part  of  the  intimate  material 
which  makes  a  background  for  scholarly  history 
of  the   period."      Cleveland 

Bagehot,  Walter 

Barrington,  Mrs  E.  I.  W.  Life  of  Walter 
Bagehot.     '14  Longmans  $4  92 

"Life  of  a  distinguished  English  banker, 
economist,  journalist,  and  man  of  letters.  Inter- 
esting as  a  revelation  of  the  brilliant  and  at- 
tractive personality  which  lay  hidden  beneath  the 
seriousness   of  his   public   career."     Pittsburgh 

"A  delightful  and  truly  interpretive,  if  over- 
discursive  biography  of  the  English  economist 
and  journalist  of  whom  President  Wilson  wrote 
in  1905.,  'He  had  social  imagination.  For  minds 
with  this  gift  of  sight,  there  is  a  quick  way 
opened  to  the  heart  of  things.  His  fame  is  sin- 
gularly disproportionate  to  his  charm.'  "  Cleve- 
land 

Baldwin,    William    Henry,   jr. 

Brooks,  J.  G.  American  citizen,  il  '10 
Houghton  $1.75  92 

"Inspiring  character  study  of  a  sincere,  large- 
hearted  railroad  official,  who  succeeded  in  busi- 
ness yet  maintained  his  moral  integrity  and  sub- 
ordinated big  private  enterprises  to  active  interest 
in  the  race  problem  and  social  reform."  (N.Y. 
state   lib.)      A.   L.  A.  sup. 

Balzac,  Honore  de 

Sandars,  M.  F.  Honore  de  Balzac:  his 
life  and  writings.    '14  Lane  $1.50  92 

"The  Nation  says  of  the  first  edition  (Dodd, 
ipos),  'In  Miss  Sandars'  work  is  presented,  for 
the  first  time,  an  exhaustive  account  of  Balzac's 
The  story  is  told  simply,  directly,  with 
sympathy,  and  not  infrequent  humor.'  A  satis- 
factory reprint  at  half  the  price,  with  the  type 
somewhat  more  compact,  but  readable,  and  the 
number  of  illustrations  increased  from  four  to 
nine."     A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

Bancroft,   Mrs   Elizabeth    (Davis) 

Letters  from  England,  1846-1849.  '04 
Scribner  $1.50  92 

"Letters  written  to  the  members  of  her  fam- 
ily _  by  the  wife  of  George  Bancroft,  the  his- 
torian, during  his  ministry  to  England.  'She 
saw  everything  with  American  eyes,  commenting 
and  contrasting,  always  with  generous  apprecia- 
tion and  with  a  laudable  desire  to  profit  by  her 
splendid  social  opportunities,  but  still  retaining 
the  old  longing  for  home  ways  and  home  peo- 
ple.'"    (Dial   1904)   Pittsburgh 


BIOGRAPHY— Individual 


15 


Bancroft,  George 

Howe,    M.    A.    D.       Life   and     letters   of 
George  Bancroft.    2v  il  '08  Scribner  $4 

92 

"Recounts  his  experiences  as  student  at  Got- 
tingen,  1818-20,  as  secretary  of  the  navy,  min- 
ister to  England  in  1846,  and  as  minister  to  Ger- 
many, 1867-74.  Reminiscences  and  anecdotes  of 
many  notable  persons,  American  and  European." 
A.  L.  A.  sup. 

Bancroft,  Hubert  Howe 

Retrospection,  political  and  personal.  3d 
ed  rev  '12  Bancroft  co.  $2  92 

"Contains  much  more  than  the  recollections 
of  a  long  and  active  life,  giving  the  author's 
fearless  and  often  caustic  comment  on  practically 
every  matter  of  vital  concern  to  the  country — 
specially  those  problems  connected  with  the  West, 
past  and  present.  His  early  life  in  Ohio,  migra- 
tion to  California,  accumulation  of  the  Bancroft 
library  and  writing  of  his  historical  works  com- 
prise the  more  personal  chapters.  Written  with- 
out regard^  to  matters  of  style  and  somewhat 
garrulous,  it  is  nevertheless  full  of  interest  for 
students  _  of  United  States  history  and  for  any 
reader  interested  in  Pacific  coast  matters." 
A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

"As  a  work  of  history  or  of  contemporaneously 
critical  value  no  very  high  rank  can  be  given  to 
this  'Retrospection'  from  Mr  Bancroft's  pen.  But 
as  a  human  document,  as  impressionistic  testi- 
mony, the  book  has  a  value  of  its  own,  coming 
as  it  does  from  a  man  who  reached  San  Fran- 
cisco in  1852 — from  an  eye-witness  of  events  in 
California  thru  six  decades."  Amer.  hist.  rev. 
20:211 

Barclay,  Sir  Thomas 
Thirty   years:   Anglo-French   reminiscen- 
ces (1876-1906).  il  '14  Houghton  $4     92 

"The  book  is  not  only  an  intimate  record  of 
an  important  period  of  diplomatic  history,  but 
contains  many  good  stories  of  the  important  peo- 
ple of  the  times.  The  author,  as  Paris  corres- 
pondent of  the  London  Times,  President  of  the 
British  Chamber  of  commerce  in  Paris,  and 
organizer  of  the  International  brotherhood  al- 
liance, did  valuable  work  in  establishing  friendly 
relations  between  France  and  England."  Cleve- 
land 

Barr,  Mrs  Amelia  Edith   (Huddleston) 

All   the  days  of  my  life;   an  autobiogra- 
phy, il  '13  Appleton  $4  92 

Writer  is  an  Anglo-American  novelist 
"The  simple  personal  memoirs  of  a  brave, 
faithful  woman  and  industrious  and  successful 
writer,  now  past  eighty.  The  story  is  full  of 
human  nature  and  speaks  frankly  of  'those  spir- 
itual experiences  which  are  the  most  potent  fac- 
tors  of  life.'  "    Cleveland 

Mrs  Barr's  "Threescore  and  ten,  a  book 
for  the  aged,"  1915,  Appleton,  $1.75,  should  be 
read  in  connection  with  the  above 

Barrie,   Mrs   Margaret   (Ogilvy) 

Barrie,    J.     M.       Margaret     Ogilvy.      '96 
Scribner  $1.35  92 

"Barrie's  tender  tribute  to  the  memory  of  his 
mother,  in  which  appear  all  his  gifts  of  delicate 
humor,  sympathy,  and  understanding  of  the  femi- 
nine mind  and  heart."     Pratt  alcove 

Barrows,    Samuel  June 
Barrows,     Mrs     I.     C. 
the    biography   of    S. 
Little  $1.50 

"Tho  handicapped  by  poverty  and  deficient 
education,  Mr  Barrows  became  an  accomplished 
linguist,  writer  and  leader  in  reform  movements, 
holding  many  positions  of  trust.  He  was  for 
ten  years  secretary  of  the  New  York  Prison  as- 
sociation."   N.Y.  state  lib. 

"An  admirable  biography  of  a  brilliant  and 
gifted  man  and  many-sided  philanthropist,  who 
will  be  best  remembered  as  a  penologist  of  en- 
lightened vision  and  great  practical  ability." 
Cleveland 


A     sunny     life; 
J.    Barrows.     '13 
92 


Barton,  Clara 

Epler,  P.  H.  Life  of  Clara  Barton,  il  '17 
Macmillan  $1.75  92 

"Comprehensive  biography,  published  with  the 
assistance  of  Miss  Barton's  literary  executors. 
To  serve  as  the  official  biography  during  the  ten 
years  or  more  required  for  the  preparation  of 
the  larger  'Life  and  letters'  from  papers  and 
documents  left  by  Miss  Barton  for  this  purpose. 
Unpublished  war  diaries  and  letters,  together 
with  her  conversations;  observations  by  eye-wit- 
nesses, and  the  records  of  the  Red  cross  society 
are  the  author's  original  sources."    Pittsburgh 

Bashkirtseff,  Marie 

Marie  Bashkirtseff,  the  journal  of  a  young 
artist  1860-84;  tr.  by  M.  J.  Serrano,  new 
and  rev  ed    '19   Dutton  $2.50  92 

"It  is  not  alone  the  outspoken  wit,  longing, 
and  opinions  of  a  girl  writing  for  her  own  heart 
and  poising  for  her  public  at  the  same  moment, 
but  the  self-revelation  of  a  gifted  and  forceful 
nature,  working  itself  out  through  successive 
phases  of  a  life  which,  concentrated  into  a  few 
short  years,  leaves  an  impression  almost  complete 
in  its  distinctness."  (Atlantic  monthly,  1889) 
Pittsburgh 

"New  in  that  it  has  been  enlarged  by  im- 
portant additions  from  the  original  French  and 
a  complete  revision  made  of  the  text."     Preface 

Bebel,  August 

Bebel's  reminiscences;  tr.  from  the  first 
German  ed.  by  Ernest  Untermann.  '11 
Rand  book  store  75c  92 

"It  contains  an  excellent  account  of  the  de- 
velopment of  modern  German  political  parties, 
as  seen  by  a  convinced  democrat,  and  is  indis- 
pensable to  students  of  the  history  of  socialism." 
(Nation    [London])    Pratt   quarterly 

"This  autobiography  of  the  famous  leader  of 
the  German  Social-democratic  party  (1840-1912) 
embodies  the  history  of  German  socialism  from 
its  rise  to  1878,  when  the  present  instalment  of 
his   recollections   closes."      Pittsburgh 

Beecher,  Henry  Ward 

Abbott,  Lyman.  Henry  Ward  Beecher. 
'03   Houghton  $2  92 

Bibliography,  pref.  pi 7-38 

"Portrays  the  great  preacher  from  long  ac- 
quaintance, as  a  man,  as  pastor,  as  reformer 
and   as   patriot."    A.   L.   A. 

Bennett,  Arnold 

Truth  about  an  author;  new  edition  with 
preface.    '11  Doran  $1  92 

"The  ruthless  realism  of  the  life  of  letters  as 
Mr  Bennett  sees  it  is  presented  in  a  series  of 
chapters  describing  the  author's  ten  years'  ap- 
prenticeship to  the  rapid  mastery  of  journalism, 
editorship,  dramatic  and  literary  criticism,  play- 
writing,  story-writing,  and  novel-writing.  It  is 
the  commercial  side  of  it  all  that  chiefly  exhibits 
itself  in  its  disillusioning  and  seamy  aspect  to 
the   reader."     Dial 

Benson,  Robert  Hugh 

Confessions  of  a  convert.  '13  Longmans 
$1.25  92 

First  published  serially  in  Ave  Maria,  1906-7 
"The  study  of  Monsignor  Benson's  progress 
thru  the  various  phases  of  Anglican  thought 
and  finally  into  the  Roman  Catholic  church.  'A 
clear  and  beautiful  narrative  which  as  a  record  of 
psychological  experience  is  a  fit  companion  to 
the   'Apologia'   of   Newman.'  "      Cleveland 

Benson,  A.  C.  Hugh;  memoirs  of  a 
brother,    il    '15  Longmans  $1.75  92 

"Not  a  formal  biography,  but  intimate  sym- 
pathetic recollections  of  the  vivid  personality  of 
Robert  Hugh  Benson  as  he  revealed  himself  to 
the  family  circle.  Concerned  with  the  details 
of     home     and     scholastic    life,     and     does     not 


16 


STANDARD    CATALOG 


Benson,  Robert  Hugh — Continued 

discuss  Father  Benson's  public  career.  Excel- 
lent photographs."    N.Y.   state   lib. 

"This  account  is  an  altogether  and  rarely  de- 
lightful   one."      Catholic   world    101:818 

Father  Martindale's  "Life  of  Benson,"  2y, 
19 16,  Longmans  $5,  is  called  by  the  Carnegie 
library  of  Pittsburgh  "the  authoritative  life" 

Beresford,     Charles     William     de    la    Poer 
Beresford,  1st  baron 

Memoirs  of  Admiral  Lord  Charles  Beres- 
ford, written  by  himself.  2v  '14  Little 
$7.50  92 

"Story  of  the  author's  career  in  the  British 
navy  from  the  time  he  entered  as  a  cadet  of  fif- 
teen in  1859  to  his  retirement  in  igii.^  The 
two  volumes  present  a  view  of  the  evolution  of 
Great  Britain's  sea  power  thru  half  a  century, 
and  relate  many  excellent  anecdotes  and  nu- 
merous stories  of  action  and  adventure."  Cleve- 
land 

Bismarck-Schonhausen,  Otto  Eduard  Leo- 
pold, fiirst  von 
Headlam,  J.  W.     Bismarck  and  the  foun- 
dation of  the  German  empire.    (Heroes 
of  the  nations)  '99  Putnam  $1.50  92 

"Best  general  survey  of  public  life  and  char- 
acter. Tells  little  of  personal  affairs."  (N.Y. 
state  lib.)      A.  L.  A. 

Robertson,  E.  G.  Bismarck.  (Makers  of 
the  nineteenth  century)    '19  Holt  $2.25 

92 

Bibliography,   P506-12 

"Study  of  Bismarck's  statecraft  and  of  Bis- 
marck himself  as  one  of  the  makers  of  modern 
Europe  and  of  the  German  nation  and  empire. 
Conclusions  and  judgments  expressed  were 
formed  before  the  outbreak  of  the  European 
war  and  based  on  exhaustive  study."  (Con- 
densed from  preface)    Pittsburgh 

"Both  historically  and  psychologically,  it  is  a 
work  often  brilliant,  always  enlightening;  writ- 
ten neither  from  the  professorial  chair  nor  the 
journalistic  desk,  but  instinct  with  a  full  and 
inner  knowledge  both  of  documents  and  transac- 
tions."     Saturday   rev.    125:893 

Boone,  Daniel 

Bruce,  H.  A.  B.  Daniel  Boone  and  the 
Wilderness  road.     '10  Macmillan  $1.50 

92 

"As  a  biography  this  work  offers  nothing  of 
importance  not  already  covered  by  Thwaites' 
"Daniel  Boone,"  on  which  it  is  partly  based. 
As  a  popular  review  of  Boone's  career,  and  an 
estimate  of  his  character,  his  pioneer  associates 
and  his  influence,  it  will,  however,  serve  a  some- 
what different  purpose.  There  is  a  good  map  of 
the  early  West  and  numerous  portraits  and 
views."     A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

Thwaites,  R.  G.  Daniel  Boone.  '02  Ap- 
pleton   $1.25  92 

"Defines  Boone's  place  among  western  pioneers 
in  the  light  of  manuscripts  in  Wisconsin  his- 
torical society  library."    (Nation,  1902)  A.  L.  A. 

Booth,  William 

Bateman,  C.  T.  Life  of  General  Booth. 
'12  Assn.  press  60c  92 

Borrow,  George  Henry 
Lavengro,  the  scholar,  the  gypsy,  the 
priest;  a  new  ed.  containing  the  unal- 
tered text  of  the  original  issue,  some 
suppressed  episodes,  ms.  variorum,  vo- 
cabulary and  notes  by  the  author  of 
the  life  of  George  Borrow.  '14  Putnam 
$2  92 

"Account  of  the  author's  wanderings  thru  the 
British  Isles<  as  a  champion  of  religious  liberty. 
He  relates  his  experiences  among  gypsies  and  his 


conversations  with  chance  acquaintances.  The 
interest  in  the  narrative  is  maintained  by  a  con- 
tinuous thread  of  mystery."     Pratt  alcove 

Jenkins,  Herbert,  comp.  Life  of  George 
H.  Borrow,    il   '12  Putnam  $3.50  92 

"A  thoroly  satisfactory  life  of  the  author  of 
'The  Bible  in  Spain,'  containing,  however,  no  im- 
portant new  matter  not  given  in  the  biography 
by  W.  I.  Knapp  (1899)  except  Borrow's  own  ac- 
count, from  St.  Petersburg,  of  the  difficulties 
surmounted  in  translating  and  printing  the  New 
Testament  in  Manchu.  Details  of  Borrow's 
'happiest  years'  (1833-40)  are  especially  full,  and 
new  details  of  his  relations  with  his  employers, 
the  British  and  Foreign  Bible  society,  are  given. 
Illustrations  from  portraits."     A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

Additional  material  may  be  found  in  C.  K. 
Shorter's  "George  Borrow  and  his  circle,"  19 13, 
Houghton,  $3.50 

Botchkareva,  Maria 

Yashka:  my  life  as  peasant,  officer  and 
exile.     '19  Stokes  $2  92 

"The  autobiography  of  the  commander  of  the 
Russian  women's  battalion  of  death,  as  set  down 
by  Isaac  Don  Levine.  Includes  a  full  account 
of  her  four  years'  service  in  the  ranks,  and  a 
vivid    picture    of    Bolshevism."      Brooklyn 

Brandes,  Georg 

Reminiscences  of  my  childhood  and 
youth.    '06  Duffield  $2.50  92 

"Dr  Brandes,  who  (19 10)  is  one  of  the  fore- 
most of  living  critics,  gives  here  a  frank  and  inti- 
mate revelation  of  the  unfolding  of  his  intel- 
lectual life,  to  his  thirtieth  year  and  the  shaping 
of  his  ideas  about  modern  literature  which  he  has 
enforced  with  so  much  impressiveness  in  his  books. 
The  vigor  and  vitality  which  characterize  his 
treatment  of  other  writers  are  equally  char- 
acteristic of  this  account  of  his  own  career.  His 
reminiscent  pages  throw  interesting  light  on  con- 
temporary happenings  in  the  sixties  as  well  as  on 
famous  men,  among  them  Ibsen,  Bjornson,  Taine, 
Renan  and  Mill,  with  whose  friendship  the  young 
critic   was   honored."      Pittsburgh 

Breshkovskaia,  Mme  Ekaterina 

Blackwell,  A.  S.,  ed.  Little  grandmother 
of  the  Russian  revolution;  reminis- 
cences and  letters  of  Catherine  Bresh- 
kovsky.    il  '17  Little  $2  92 

"The  dramatic  account  of  the  life  of  the  revo- 
lutionist, affectionately  nicknamed  'Baboushka' 
(dear  little  grannie),  who  has  spent  30  of  her 
73  years  in  exile  in  Siberia. 

Alice  Stone  Blackwell,  the  editor,  has  gath- 
ered her  material  from  three  sources:  Madame 
Breshkovsky's  own  account  of  her  childhood  and 
youth  dictated  to  Dr  Abraham  Cahan  and  pub- 
lished serially  in  Yiddish  in  the  New  York 
Jewish  daily  forward  in  1904;  letters  to  her  son 
and  others,  most  of  them  written  since  1904, 
and  her  account  of  her  prison  life  given  to 
Ernest  Poole  and  published  in  the  Outlook.  The 
letters  form  the  most  interesting  part  of  the 
book,  revealing  as  they  do  a  personality  of  un- 
usual sweetness  and  strength,  and  giving  inti- 
mate pictures  of  peasant  life."     Cleveland 

Brevoort,  Henry 
Letters  to  Washington   Irving;  ed.  with 
an  introd.  by  G.  S.  Hellman.  '18  Put- 
nam $3.50  92 

"Covering  with  considerable  interruptions,  the 
years  from  18 11  to  1843,  the  letters  chronicle  the 
literary  and  personal  news  of  the  moment,  or 
touch  briefly  upon  the  political  events  of  the 
time."      (Nation)   Pratt  quarterly 

Bridgman,  Laura 

Elliott,  Mrs  M.  H.,  and  Hall,  Mrs  F.  H. 
Laura  Bridgman;  Dr  Howe's  famous 
pupil  and  what  he  taught  her.  '03  Lit- 
tle $1.50  92 

Bibliography  of  Laura  Bridgman  and  the  blind 
deaf-mutes  of  her  time,  P383-4 


BIOGRAPHY— Individual 


17 


Bridgman,  Laura — Continued 

"Drawn  from  Dr  Howe's  written  notes  and 
the  journal  and  letters  of  the  blind,  deaf  and 
dumb  girl."   (N.Y.  state  lib.)     A.  L.  A. 

Bright,  John  , 

Trevelyan,  G.  M.  Life  of  John  Bright, 
il   '13    Houghton   $5  92 

Some  books  on  John   Bright,  pn 

"The  principal  subjects  treated  are  the  Anti- 
corn-law  league,  Bright's  resistance  to  the 
Crimean  war  and  to  European  entanglements 
generally,  his  support  of  the  northern  cause  dur- 
ing the  American  Civil  war,  his  early  advocacy 
of  Irish  church  and  land  legislation,  and  above  all, 
the  winning  of  the  vote  for  the  working-men, 
the  cause  to  which  the  best  years  of  his  life  were 
given.  His  private  life,  with  glimpses  of  old 
industrial  Lancashire  and  the  Quaker  community 
of  seventy  years  ago,  is  not  neglected."  Pitts- 
burgh 

"Well  illustrated  with  contemporary  portraits 
and  cartoons,  and  well  indexed."     A.  L.  A;  bkl. 

"Mr  Trevelyan  ...  is  singularly  well  equipped 
for  the  writing  of  the  story  of  the  struggles  of 
the  man  who  was  probably  the  best  loved  and 
most  widely  respected  of  Victorian  statesmen." 
Amer.  hist.   rev.    19=35' 

Bronte,  Charlotte 

Gaskell,  Mrs  E.  S.  Life  of  Charlotte 
Bronte;  with  introd.  and  notes  by  C.  K. 
Shorter.    1900    Harper  $1.60  92 

"Best  edition  of  the  standard  biography." 
(Johnston)   A.   L.   A. 

"In  the  whole  of  English  biographical  litera- 
ture there  is  no  book  that  can  compare  in  wide- 
spread interest  with  the  'Life  of  Charlotte 
Bronte'  by  Mrs  Gaskell.  ...  As  far  as  mere 
readers  are  concerned,  it  may  indeed  claim  its 
hundreds  as  against  the  tens  of  intrinsically  more 
important  rivals.  Mrs  Gaskell  was  herself  a 
popular  novelist,  who  commanded  a  very  wide 
audience.  She  brought  to  bear  upon  the  biog- 
raphy of  Charlotte  Bronte  all  those  literary  gifts 
which  had  made  the  charm  of  her  seven  volumes 
of  romance.  And  these  gifts  were  employed  upon 
a  romance  of  real  life,  not  less  fascinating  than 
anything  which  imagination  could  have  furnished. 
...  It  is  quite  certain  that  Charlotte  Bronte 
would  not  stand  on  so  splendid  a  pedestal  today 
but  for  the  single-minded  devotion  of  her  ac- 
complished biographer."  (Clement  K.  Shorter) 
Pittsburgh 

Shorter,  C.  K.  Charlotte  Bronte  and  her 
sisters.  (Literary  lives)  il  '05  Scribner 
$1.25  92 

"Brief,  enthusiastic  biography,  supplementing 
Mrs  Gaskell's  'Life'  by  including  later  material. 
His  larger  work,  'The  Brontes'  (Scribner,  1908, 
2v.)  incorporates  the  material  in  this  volume  and 
adds  over  700  letters,  making  it  the  most  com- 
plete biography  in  print."     A.  L.  A.  sup. 

Sinclair,  May.  Three  Brontes,  il  '12 
Houghton    $3.50  92 

Key  to  the  Bronte  works,  P241-47 
"Biographical  and  critical  study  of  the  sis- 
ters which  weighs  the  opinions  of  their  other 
biographers  in  the  light  of  the  author's  inter- 
esting, if  somewhat  prejudiced  point  of  view. 
Emily  is  plainly  Miss  Sinclair's  favorite  of  the 
three  sisters  and  her  critical  selection  and  ap- 
preciation of  Emily's  poetry  is  one  of  the  best 
parts   of  the  book."      Pittsburgh 

Wood,  Butler,  ed.  Charlotte  Bronte,  1816- 
1916:  a  centenary  memorial  prepared 
by  the  Bronte  society,   il  '18  Dutton  $4 

92 

"The  essays  here  collected  are  from  the  pens 
of  Mrs  Humphry  Ward,  Messrs  Edmund  Gosse, 
G.  K.  Chesterton,  A.  C.  Benson,  and  Halliwell 
Sutcliffe,  Sir  Sidney  Lee,  Dr  Richard  Garnett, 
and  others,  and  treat  of  Charlotte  Bronte's 
novels,  the  home  of  the  Brontes,  Charlotte 
Bronte  in  Brussels,  and  kindred  topics." 
Athenaeum,    19 18 


"A  memorial  volume  prepared  by  the  Bronte 
Society  of  Great  Britain  in  honor  of  the  hun- 
dredth anniversary  of  Charlotte  Bronte's  birth. 
In  addition  to  contributions  written  especially 
for  the  public  meeting  held  at  Haworth  the 
volume  includes  selections  from  the  Transactions 
of  the  society,  among  them  appreciations  from 
Dr  Richard  Garnett,  Sir  Sidney  Lee,  Professor 
C.  E.  Vaughan,  and  others.  .  .  .  The  book 
is  illustrated  with  pictures  and  maps."  Book 
rev.   digest 

"Next  to  Mrs  Gaskell's  biography,  this  is  per- 
haps the  most  interesting  book  yet  published 
about  the  Bronte  sisters."     Spectator   120:185 

Brooks,  Phillips 
Allen,  A.  V.  G.     Life  and  letters  of  Phil- 
lips Brooks,  abr  ed  '07  Dutton  $3      92 

"A  loving  hand  has  traced  the  outline  of  a 
very  human  life,  and  the  honesty,  the  uncom- 
promising truthfulness,  of  the  subject  has  en- 
tered into  the  disposition  of  the  biographer.  .  .  . 
We  welcome  this  'Life  and  letters'  as  not  only 
a  very  notable  contribution  to  the  small  class  of 
really  worthy  American  biographies,  but  as  the 
prolongation  of  one  of  the  finest  influences  that 
have  been  moulding  American  character,  espe- 
cially in  the  field  of  spiritual  development.  .  .  . 
The  letters  which  Brooks  wrote  are  very  expres- 
sive of  a  certain  side  of  his  nature,  that  sunny 
side  which  made  so  large  a  part  of  his  great- 
ness, but  they  rarely  are  more  than  superficial 
disclosures  of  his  temperament.  ...  Dr  Allen 
.  .  .  looked  for  Brooks  in  his  sermons,  and  there 
he  found  him."  (Atlantic  monthly,  1901)  Pitts- 
burgh 

Dutton  also  publishes  an  edition  in  five 
volumes  at  $25 

Brown,  Demetra  Vaka 

Child  of  the   orient.   '14   Houghton  $1.35 

92 

"Demetra  Vaka  tells  the  story  of  her  own 
childhood  in  Turkey.  She  was  a  little  Greek  girl, 
brought  up  with  a  reverence  for  Greek  tradi- 
tions and  a  hatred  for  the  Turks,  but  she  made 
friends  with  a  little  Turkish  girl  and  was  ad- 
mitted into  Turkish  households.  The  story  fol- 
lows her  thru  three  year's  schooling  in  Paris 
and  describes  her  arrival  in  America."  Book 
rev.    digest 

Brown,  John 

Du  Bois,  W.  E.  B.  John  Brown.  (Amer- 
ican crisis  biographies)  '09  Jacobs  $1.50 

92 

Villard,  O.  G.  John  Brown,  1800-1859. 
il  '10  Houghton  $5  92 

"An  exhaustive,  unbiased  biography,  likely  to 
remain  the  most  complete  and  satisfactory  study 
of  this  remarkable  personality.  Essentially  a 
biography  for  the  student:  for  popular  use  Du 
Bois*  'John  Brown,'  is  the  best  brief  volume." 
A.  L.  A.  sup. 

"Author  has  written  one  of  the  great  biog- 
raphies of  our  literature."  (J.  T.  Morse,  jr.  in 
Atlantic  106:662)  N.Y.  state  lib. 

Browning,  Mrs  Elizabeth  (Barrett) 

Letters;  ed.  with  biographical  additions 
by  F.  G.  Kenyon.  new  ed  2v  in  1  '99 
Macmillan  $1.50  .   92 

"Abounding  in  glimpses  of  persons,  of  judg- 
ments of  men  and  books,  political  ardors  and  per- 
sonal relations."    A.  L.  A. 

Browning,  Robert 

Chesterton,  G.  K.  Robert  Browning. 
(English  men  of  letters)  '03  Macmil- 
lan 75c  92 

"Mr  Chesterton  belongs  to  a  generation  of 
readers  younger  than  any  of  those  who  were 
familiar  with  Browning's  presence — and  ...  is 
to  be  welcomed  as  bringing  to  his  task  the  fresh- 
ness and  the  different  perspective  of  youth.  He 
brings  also  a  remarkable  degree  of  instinctive 
sympathy  and  congeniality  of  mind_  with  the 
writer   who    is   his   subject    .    .   .   qualities   some- 


18 


STANDARD    CATALOG 


Browning,  Robert — Continued 

what  akin  to  Browning's  own  ...  an  unpruned 
fertility  of  healthy  and  manly  thinking,  and  a 
readiness  to  express  his  meaning  in  any  rough- 
and-ready  phrase  that  comes  to  hand."  (Times 
[London]    lit.   sup.)     Pittsburgh 

Dowden,  Edward.  Robert  Browning. 
(Everyman's  lib.)  '04  Dutton  70c;  lib. 
binding  90c  92 

"Specially  interesting  as  a  study  of  his  poems, 
narrating  events  of  life  as  related  to  and  inter- 
preting them."    (N.Y.  state  lib.)  A.  L.  A.  sup. 

Orr,  Mrs  A.  L.    Life  and  letters  of  Robert 

Browning.     1900    Houghton   $2.50        92 

"Authorized  by  the   poet's  family."    A.   L.  A. 

See   also   W.    H.    Griffin's   Life,    19 10,   Macmil- 

lan,  $3.75,  which  is  based  partly  on  more  recent 

material  than  that  to  which   Mrs  Orr  had  access 

Browning,    Robert,     and     Browning,     Eliz- 
abeth (Barrett) 

Letters  of  Robert  Browning  and  E.  B. 
Barrett,    1845-1846.    2v    '99    Harper    $5 

92 

"These  are  all  the  letters  that  ever  passed 
between  Mr  and  Mrs  Browning,  and  date  from 
some  time  before  their  first  meeting  to  their  de- 
parture together  for  the  continent  a  week  after 
their  marriage.  Before  his  death  Mr  Browning 
destroyed  all  his  correspondence  except  these  let- 
ters which  he  left  to  his  son  to  do  with  as  he 
liked."      Pittsburgh 

"A  remarkable  revelation  of  beautiful  char- 
acter. The  sense  that  so  intimate  a  set  of  let- 
ters should  not  be  laid  bare  to  the  public  has 
been  gradually  overcome  by  the  perception  of 
their    singular  charm."     (Leslie  Stephen)  A.  L.  A. 

Bryant,  William  Cullen 

Bigelow,  John.  William  Cullen  Bryant. 
(American  men  of  letters)  '90  Hough- 
ton  $1.35  92 

"Author,  a  warm  personal  friend,  was  asso- 
ciated for  many  years  with  Mr  Bryant  in  the 
management  of  the  Evening  post,  and  he  has 
written  a  compact  and  readable  life."    Pittsburgh 

Burke,  Edmund 

Morley,  John.  Burke.  (English  men  of 
letters)    '87  Harper  75c  92 

"A  different  work  from  author's  'Edmund 
Burke,'  1867.  Narrative  of  Burke's  career  as 
statesman,  author,  orator  and  as  a  figure  in  so- 
ciety."   A.   L.   A. 

Burnett,  Mrs  Frances  (Hodgson) 

One  I  knew  the  best  of  all;  a  memory  of 
the  mind  of  a  child;  il.  by  R.  B.  Birch. 
'93   Scribner  $1.50  92 

"Relates  author's  childish  impressions;  valu- 
able as  a  record  of  development  of  an  imagi- 
native child's  mind."     (N.Y.  state  lib.)  A.  L.  A. 

Burns,  Robert 

Blackie,  J.  S.  Life  of  Robert  Burns. 
(Great  writers)  '88  Scribner  $1.25        92 

Bibliography,   41   pref.  p. 

Lockhart,  J.  G.  Life  of  Robert  Burns. 
(Everyman's  lib.)  '07  Dutton  70c;  lib. 
binding  90c  92 

Burr,  Aaron 

Merwin,  H.  C.  Aaron  Burr.  (Beacon 
biographies)    '99  Small  60c  92 

Parton,  James.  Life  and  times  of  Aaron 
Burr;  enl.  ed.  with  numerous  appen- 
dices, containing  new  information.  2v 
'92  Houghton  $6  92 

"Adds  something  of  real  value  to  our  knowl- 
edge of  Burr  and  shows  clearly  that  he  had 
been  unjustly  judged  in  many  particulars." 
A.  L.  A. 


Burroughs,  John 

Barrus,  Clara.  Our  friend  John  Bur- 
roughs,   il  '14  Houghton  $2.25  92 

"Nearly  half  of  the  book  is  compiled  from  a 
series  of  letters,  autobiographical  in  character, 
written  at  the  request  of  Miss  Barrus,  with  bits 
of  interviews  to  fill  in  the  gaps.  The  other 
chapters  describe  the  naturalist  and  his  haunts 
with  an  appreciative  human  touch  that  is  full  of 
charm."      A.   L.   A.  bkl. 

Burton,   Isabel    (Arundel),   lady 

Romance  of  Isabel,  Lady  Burton;  the 
story  of  her  life,  told  in  part  by  herself 
and  in  part  by  W.  H.  Wilkins.  '97 
Dodd  $3.50 

Lady    Burton's    Life      of     her    husband, 


92 

Sir 


Richard    F.     Burton,    traveller,      orientalist    and 
writer,  is  now  out  of  print 

Byron,    George    Gordon    Noel    Byron,    6th 
baron 

Life,  letters  and  journals  of  Lord  Byron; 
a  complete  ed.  collected  and  arranged 
with  notes  by  Sir  Walter  Scott.  '08 
Murray  7s  6d  92 

"One  of  the  most  delightful  and  entertaining 
biographies  in  our  literature — a  companion  vol- 
ume, in  every  way,  to  Boswell's  'Johnson'  and 
Lockhart's    'Scott.'  "      Pratt    alcove 

Nichol,  John.  Byron.  (English  men  of 
letters)    '80   Harper   75c  92 

"Competent  and  sympathetic  life  which,  how- 
ever, does  not  spare  the  poet's  weaknesses." 
A.  L.  A. 

Caesar,  Julius 

Fowler,  W.  W.  Julius  Caesar,  and  the 
foundation  of  the  Roman  imperial  sys- 
tem. (Heroes  of  the  nations)  '92  Put- 
nam $1.50  92 

"Embodies  results  of  recent  investigations 
and  preserves  an  excellent  perspective  in  esti- 
mating Caesar's  character  and  influence."  (N.Y. 
state   lib.)     A.   L.  A. 

Froude,  J.  A.  Caesar;  a  sketch.  79 
Scribner  $1.50  92 

"Careful  study  of  'the  conversion  of  the  Ro- 
man republic  into  a  military  empire.'  Gives  a 
good  outline  picture  of  Roman  life  and  con- 
ditions at  the  time  of  Caesar."     A.  L.  A. 

Calhoun,   John    Caldwell 

Hoist,  H.  E.  von.  John  Caldwell  Cal- 
houn. (American  statesmen)  '09 
Houghton  $1.35  92 

"Deals  chiefly  with  public  relations;  valuable 
as  history  of  the  slavery  question  rather  than  as 
personal  biography."      (N.Y.  state  lib.)  A.  L.  A. 

Hunt,  Gaillard.  John  C.  Calhoun. 
(American  crisis  biographies)  '08 
Jacobs   $1.50  92 

"The  best  biography  for  the  public  library, 
scholarly  yet  popular.  Unlike  Hoist's  biography 
it  gives  personal  history  as  well  as  a  full  survey 
of  his  political  career."    A.  L.  A.  sup. 

Calvin,  John 

Walker,  Williston.  John  Calvin.  (Heroes 
of  the  reformation)  il  '06  Putnam  $1.50 

92 

"Critical  as  well  as  sympathetic,  carefully 
citing  authorities,  and  candidly  exhibiting  both 
the  lights  and  the  shadows  of  a  masterful  char- 
acter and  career."      (Outlook)   A.   L.  A.  sup. 

Campbell,  Reginald  John 

A  spiritual  pilgrimage.     '16  Appleton  $2 

92 

"The    former    minister    of    the    City    Temple, 

London,    the   conspicuous   exponent   of   the    'new 

theology,'  here   tells  us   of  his  soul's  journey  to 

the  priesthood  of  the  Church  of  England.     The 


BIOGRAPHY— Individual 


19 


Campbell,   Reginald  John— Continued 

simplicity  and  charm  of  the  narration  recall 
Newman's  'Apologia,'  and  the  author's  considera- 
tion of  many  of  the  important  theological 
themes  of  the  past  quarter-century  makes  the 
book  of  wide  appeal."    Cleveland 

"It  stands  alone  in  the  realm  of  spiritual  biog- 
raphy. It  reflects  neither  the  heat  of  inner  war- 
fare, as  does  Newman's  'Apologia,'  nor  the  bit- 
ter revolt  and  sarcasm  of  Robert  Benson's  'Con- 
fessions.' "  Springfield  Republican,  January  14, 
1917 

Carlyle,  Mrs  Jane  Baillie  (Welsh) 

Letters  and  memorials;  prepared  for 
publication  by  Thomas  Carlyle;  ed.  by 
J.  A.  Froude.  2v  '83  Scribner  $3  92 

"They  take  up  the  story  of  her  life  where  it 
was  left  in  Froude's  'Thomas  Carlyle;  a  history 
of  the  first  forty  years  of  his  life.'  "  (Athe- 
naeum)  A.  L.   A.  • 

"Thru  the  medium  of  these  frank,  pungent, 
witty  letters  is  revealed  a  personality  of  rare 
charm,  vivid  and  magnetic.  Carlyle  too  stands 
out  as  a  living  figure,  and  the  whole  circle  of 
their  friends — the  most  interesting  figures  of  the 
day — move  thru  the  pages."    Pratt  alcove 

Carlyle,  Thomas 

Reminiscences;  ed.  by  J.  A.  Froude.  '81 
Scribner  $1.50  92 

Froude,  J.  A.  Thomas  Carlyle;  a  history 
of  his  life  in  London,  1834-1881.  2v  '84 
Scribner  $3  92 

"An  unsparing  revelation  of  Carlyle's  self  and 
his  intimate  relationships,  set  forth  from  his  own 
papers  with  almost  painful  fidelity  to  facts  and 
with  little  effort  to  soften  the  failings  in  his  dis- 
turbed  life."     Pratt   alcove 

Garnett,  Richard.  Life  of  Thomas  Car- 
lyle.  (Great  writers)  '87  Scribner    $1.25 

92 

"Mr  Garnett  has  given  a  singularly  good  ac- 
count of  Carlyle,  man  and  work.  .  .  .  We  do 
not  know  that  anything  important  .  .  .  in 
Carlyle's  biography  is  here  omitted,  while  his 
successive  works  meet  with  criticism  which  is 
more  or  less  sympathetic  and  discriminating.  Mr 
Garnett  is  most  emphatically  right  in  .insisting  on 
the  altogether  incalculable  importance  of  Car- 
lyle as  an  ethical  influence  on  the  last  half  of 
the  nineteenth  century."  (Saturday  rev.,  1887) 
Pittsburgh 

Bibliography,  apx.  pi-28 

Carlyle,  Thomas,  and  Emerson,  Ralph  Waldo 
Correspondence  of  Thomas  Carlyle    and 
Ralph   Waldo    Emerson,    1834-1872.    2v 
'84  library  ed  Houghton  $3.50  .92 

"A  nearly  complete  record  of  their  friendship. 
Its  special  charm  lies  in  its  being  human  rather 
than  literary."  (G.  E.  Woodberry  in  Atlantic 
51:560)  A.  L.  A 

Carroll,  Lewis  (pseud,  of  Charles  Lutwidge 
Dodgson) 

Collingwood,  S.  D.  Life  and  letters  of 
Lewis   Carroll.    '98   Century  $2.50       92 

Bibliography,  P431-43 

"Interesting  biography  of  the  Oxford  don  who 
lectured  on  mathematics  and  created  the  immor- 
tal Alice.  The  author  quotes  many  entertaining 
letters  to  and  from  children,  of  whom  Lewis  Car- 
roll was  very  fond,  and  gives  some  interesting 
details  about  'Alice  in  Wonderland,'  'Through 
the  looking-glass'  and  'Sylvie  and  Bruno.'  Illus- 
trated by  sketches  and  remarkably  fine  photo- 
graphs."      Pittsburgh 

Carson,  Christopher  (Kit  Carson) 

Abbott,    J.    S.    C.      Christopher    Carson, 
known  as  Kit  Carson.   (American  pio- 
neers and  patriots)  '01  Dodd  $1.25       92 
"Vivid    picture    of    adventurous    life    of    the 
trapper."    (N.Y.  state  lib.)  A.  L.  A. 


Sabin,  E.  L.  Kit  Carson  days  (1809- 
1868).  il  '14  McClurg  $3  92 

"Fully  documented  and  authenticated  biog- 
raphy of  the  famous  old  Indian  fighter  and 
Civil  war  soldier  and  a  history  of  his  times  and 
companions  illustrated  by  many  rare-  prints." 
(Dial  57:343)  N.Y.  state  lib. 

Catherine  of  Sienna,  Saint 

Saint  Catherine  of  Sienna  as  seen  in  her 
letters;  tr.  by  V.  D.  Scudder.  '05  Dut- 
ton  $2.50  ,  92 

"Selections  from  the  _  letters,  excellently 
edited,  and  with  interesting  forewords  giving 
glimpses  of  the  young  saint's  various  corres- 
pondents. Gardner's  'Saint  Catherine  of 
Sienna'  (Dutton,  1907,  $5)  is  a  sympathetic, 
reverent  and  very  complete  story  of  her  life  and 
work."     A.    L.   A.    sup. 

Gardner,  E.  G.  Saint  Catherine  of  Si- 
enna: a  study  in  the  religion,  literature 
and  history  of  the  14th  century  in  Italy. 
'07  Dutton  $5  92 

"This  is  no  conventional  biography  of  a  can- 
onized saint,  but  a  study  in  Italian  history  cen- 
tered in  the  work  and  personality  of  one  of  the 
most  wonderful  women  who  ever  lived,  the  truest 
and  most  single-hearted  patriot  of  her  age.  .  .  . 
Mr  Gardner  has  done  for  St  Catherine  what 
Paul  Sabatier  did  for  St  Francis.  .  .  .  Rarely 
do  we  find  the  critical  faculty  so  happily  blended 
with    enthusiasm."      (Nation,    1908)      Pittsburgh 

Cavour,  Camillo  Benso,  comte  di 

Martinengo-Cesaresco,  E.  L.  H.  C,  con- 
tessa.  Cavour.  (Foreign  statesmen) 
'98  Macmillan  80c  92 

Chief  authorities,  P221-2 
_  "Might  be  used  as  a  syllabus  by  any  one 
wishing  to  master  this  most  fascinating  period; 
but  it  differs  from  other  syllabi  in  being  full  of 
sparkle  and  interest."  (W.  R.  Thayer  in  Amer. 
hist.   rev.   14:725)  A.  L.  A. 

Thayer,  W.  R.  Life  and  times  of  Cavour. 
2v  (Riverside  popular  biographies)  il 
maps  '11  Houghton  $5  92 

Abbreviated  titles  of  works  frequently  re- 
ferred  to,   V2,   ps  10-15 

"This  important  work,  twenty  years  in  prepa- 
ration, follows  the  author's  'Dawn  of  Italian  in- 
dependence' and  covers  the  growth  of  modern 
Italy  and  Cavour's  part  in  it,  1848-1861.  'The 
most  important  work  on  the  making  of  modern 
Italy  which  has  been  published  in  English,  and 
the  most  complete  critical  study  of  Cavour  which 
has  appeared  in  any  language.  .  .  .  Mr  Thayer 
is  completely  saturated  with  Cavour's  thought. 
.  .  .  He  has  vividly  reproduced  the  Italian 
spirit  of  the  time  (and)  has  followed  with  par- 
ticular minuteness  the  intricacies  of  European 
diplomacy  in  which  Cavour  was  the  master  mind 
from  1858  to  1861.'  (Nation  93:546)  Illustra- 
tions (chiefly  portraits)  and  maps."    A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

Cervantes   Saavedra,   Miguel  de 

Fitzmaurice-Kelly,     James.       Miguel  de 

Cervantes    Saavedra;    a    memoir    il  '13 

Oxford  $3  92 

"A  succinct  account  of  all  the  now  authen- 
ticated main  facts  of  the  life  of  the  author  of 
'Don  Quixote',  with  its  many  trials  and  troubles. 
.  .  .  This  plain  narrative,  free  from  all  critical 
mention  of  his  works,  and  told  in  direct  lan- 
guage, supplies  a  striking  portrait  and  a  clear 
insight  into  the  nature  of  a  man  who,  genius  as 
he  was,  was  in  everyday  affairs  his  own  effective 
enemy."     Athenaeum 

Schevill,  Rudolph.  Cervantes.  (Master 
spirits  of  literature)    '19  Duffield  $2.25 

92 

This  volume  by  the  professor  of  Spanish,  in 
the  University  of  California,  rehearses  the  chief 
events  of  Cervantes'  life,  and  gives  an  estimate 
of  his  work.     In  chapter  six,  Professor   Schevill 


20 


STANDARD    CATALOG 


Cervantes  Saavedra,  Miguel  de—  Continued 

shows  the  "relation  of  Cervantes  to  the  culture 
of  the  renascence  and  the  fiction  of  the  six- 
teenth century." 

Bibliography,   P373-6 

Chaffee,  Adna   Romanza 

Carter,  W.  G.  H.  Life  of  Lieutenant 
General  Chaffee,  il  '17  Univ.  of  Chicago 
press  $2.50  .  .  92 

"An  appreciative  biography  of  the  military 
life  of  the  only  man  who  has  risen  from  the 
lowest  to  the  highest  rank  in  our  army.  General 
Chaffee  fought  in  the  Civil  war,  in  Cuba,  China, 
and  the  Philippines."    A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

"Well  written  and  forms  a  welcome  addition 
to  American  military  biography."  Springfield  Re- 
publican, March  17,  19 18 

Champlain,  Samuel  de 

Sedgwick,  H.  D.  Samuel  de  Champlain. 
(Riverside  biographical  ser.)  '02 
Houghton  75c;  school  ed  60c  92 

"Champlain's  life  and  surroundings  in  France 
dwelt  on  at  unusual  length  and  nobility  of  his 
character   well   presented."     A.    L.   A. 

Charlemagne,  emperor  of  the  west 

Davis,  H.  W.  C.  Charlemagne,  the  hero 
of  two  nations.  (Heroes  of  the  nations) 
1900  Putnam  $1.50  92 

"I  have  endeavored  to  give  some  idea  of  the 
first  western  emperor's  personality  and  influence 
upon  European  history.  I  have  limited  myself, 
in  dealing  with  institutions  and  social  and  lit- 
erary developments,  to  those  facts  which  seemed 
to  throw  light  on  his  career.  I  have  thruoui 
based  my  narrative  on  a  study  of  the  chronicles, 
diplomata  and  literature  of  the  period."     Preface 

Eginhard.  Life  of  Charlemagne;  tr.  from 
the  text  of  the  "Monumenta  Ger- 
maniae"  by  S.  E.  Turner.  (Harper's 
school  classics)  Am  bk  30c  92 

Life  of  Eginhard,  p<j-io 

"Eginhard  was  minister  of  public  works  and 
councilor  to  Charlemagne  as  well  as  his  private 
secretary."     (Pittsburgh)    A.    L.    A. 

Charles  V,  emperor  of  Germany 

Andrews,  Mrs  Marion.  Great  emperor, 
Charles  V,  1519-1558,  by  Christopher 
Hare,  il  maps  '17  Scribner  $3.50  92 

"  'The  political  and  personal  history  of  one 
of  the  greatest  figures  of  the  later  renaissance 
period;  ...  a  less  shadowy  picture  of  the  em- 
peror than  the  general  reader  is  apt  to  obtain 
from  a  number  of  separate  authorities  dealing 
with  the  history  of  Europe  in  the  sixteenth 
century.  Several  good  portraits,  a  genealogical 
chart,  two  maps,  and  a  useful  chronology  are 
provided.'  (Athenaeum,  1017)  Average  libraries 
will  _  not  need  this  except  where  there  is  a 
special  call."    A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

_  "A  popular  account  of  the  life  of  Charles  V, 
giving  much  historical  detail.  Of  especial  in- 
terest are  the  chapters  on  the  conquest  of  Mex- 
ico   and    Peru. 

The  story  of  the  last  great  emperor  of  the 
Hapsburg  line  is  a  subject  full  of  fascination  to 
readers  of  history.  His  latest  biographer  now 
tells  it  with  considerable  attention  to  detail  and 
a  keen  appreciation  of  its  picturesque  phases  and 
romantic  appeal."      Cleveland 

Charles  XII,  king  of  Sweden 

Bain,  R.  N.  Charles  XII  and  the  col- 
lapse of  the  Swedish  empire,  1682-1719. 
(Heroes  of  the  nations)  '95  Putnam 
$1.50  92 

"The  present  work  has  no  pretension  to  be 
anything  like  an  exhaustive  biography.  But  it 
claims  to  suggest  the  lines  on  which  such  a 
biography  should  be  written,  'and  it  endeavors 
to  dissipate  the  many  erroneous  notions  concern- 


ing 'The  lion  of  the  North'  for  which  Voltaire's 
brilliant  and  attractive  work,  I  had  almost  said 
romance,  'Histoire  de  Charles  XII'  is  mainly  re- 
sponsible. "     (Preface)    Pittsburgh 

Chase,  Salmon  Portland 

Hart,  A.  B.  Salmon  Portland  Chase. 
(American  statesmen)  '99  Houghton 
$1.35  92 

"In  three  historic  episodes;  the  western 
political  anti-slavery  movement,  the  financial 
measures  of  the  Civil  war,  and  the  process  of 
judicial  reconstruction."  (W.  D.  Foulke  in 
Amer.  hist.  rev.  5:583)   A.  L.  A. 

Chaucer,  Geoffrey 

Ward,  A.  W.  Chaucer.  (English  men  of 
letters)  '80  Harper  75c  92 

"Compact  sketch  giving  the  results  of  modern 
scholarship.  'He  has  a  real  eye  for  Chaucer  him- 
self and  the  best  points  of  his  work,  and  is  the 
first  critic  who  has  done  justice  to  the  wonder- 
ful dramatic  power  of  the  poet.'  "  (Academy, 
1880)  Pittsburgh 

Chestnut,  Mrs  Mary  Boykin  (Miller) 

Diary  from  Dixie;  ed.  by  I.  D.  Martin 
and  M.  L.  Avary.  il  '05  Appleton  $2.75 

92 

"Record  of  social  life  in  Charleston,  Mont- 
gomery and  Richmond,  1860-1865,  by  the  gay, 
pleasure-loving  wife  of  a  Confederate  brigadier- 
general.  Extremely  frank  opinions  of  social  and 
military   leaders."     A.   L.   A.   sup. 

Choate,  Joseph  Hodges 

Strong,  T.  G.  Joseph  H.  Choate,  New 
Englander,  New  Yorker,  lawyer,  am- 
bassador, il  '17  Dodd  $3  92 

"Popular,  well  worked-up  account  of  the  pub- 
lic life  of  an  ideal  American,  describing  him  as 
New  Englander,  New  Yorker,  lawyer  and  ambas- 
sador to  England.  The  sources  are  Mr  Choate's 
own  reminiscences  and  scrapbooks  of  newspaper 
articles."    Cleveland 

Churchill,    Lady    Randolph    Spencer.      See 

Cornwallis-West,  J.  J. 
Cicero,  Marcus  Tullius 

Boissier,  Gaston.  Cicero  and  his  friends; 
tr.  by  A.  D.  Jones.    '97  Putnam     $2.50 

92 

"Study  of  Roman  society  thru  Cicero's  letters. 
Of  value  to  student  of  history  and  sociology  and 
interesting  to  the  general  reader."  (N.Y.  state 
lib.)  A.  L.  A. 

Davidson,  J.  L.  S.  Cicero  and  the  fall  of 
the  Roman  republic.  (Heroes  of  the 
nations)    '03   Putnam  $1.50  92 

"Sets  forth  from  Cicero's  writings  a  terse  ac- 
count of  the  disastrous  but  not  inglorious  failure 
of  the  last  free  state  of  the  ancient  world." 
(Publishers  weekly)   A.  L.  A. 

Cid  Campeador 

Clarke,  H.  B.  Cid  Campeador  and  the 
waning  of  the  crescent  in  the  west;  il. 
from  drawings  by  Don  Santiago  Arcos. 
(Heroes  of  the  nations)  '97  Putnam 
$1.50  92 

List  of  principal  authorities  consulted,  pref. 
P13-M 

Clark,  Charles  Edgar 

My  fifty  years  in  the  navy,  il  '17  Little 
$2.50  92 

"A  pleasing  feature  of  this  most  readable  book 
is  the  unconscious  revelation  of  the  author's  en- 
gaging personality.  His  experiences  include  the 
stormy  days  of  '61  when  the  Naval  academy  was 
moved  from  Annapolis  to  Newport,  service  during 
the  Rebellion,  work  in  many  seas  in  times  of 
peace,  and  unexcelled  performance  of  duty  in 
the  war  with  Spain."  (Condensed  from  Nation 
19 1 7)   Pittsburgh 


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21 


Clarke,  Mrs  Caroline  Cowles  (Richards) 

Village  life  in  America,  1852-1872.  il  '12 
Holt  $1.50  92 

"An  entertaining  _  and  refreshingly  original 
diary  of  a  school-girl  in  Canandaigua,  New  York, 
begun  in  1852  and  continued  thru  twenty  years. 
The  simple  ways  of  the  villages  of  central  New 
York  and  the  homely  details  of  life  in  a  cul- 
tivated household,  distinguished  by  piety  and 
devotion  to  Puritan  ideals,  as  seen  thru  the 
eyes  of  a  shrewd  and  unaffected  girl,  are  recited 
with  a  quaint,  often  unconscious  humor  and 
with  sure  literary  instinct.  Privately  printed  in 
1910  under  title  'Diary,  1852-1872.'  "  A.  L.  A. 
bkl. 

Clarke,  Mrs  Mary  Cowden 

My  long  life.  '97  Dodd  $2  92 

"Mrs  Cowden  Clarke  was  the  daughter  of  the 
well  known  English  musician,_  Vincent  Novello. 
She  was  herself  a  distinguished  Shakespeare 
scholar,  and  connected  thru  her  husband  and 
father  with  what  was  best  in  the  literary  and 
musical  life  of  the  greater  part  of  the  19th  cen- 
tury."    Pittsburgh 

Clay,  Henry 

Schurz,    Carl.  Life    of    Henry    Clay.    2v 

(American  statesmen)    '94    Houghton 

$1.35  ea  92 

"Shows  full  recognition  of  significance  of 
movements  of  popular  feeling  which  so  frequently 
upset  the  balance  of  politicians.  Personality  of 
Clay  constantly  brought  to  the  front."  A.  L.  A. 

Clemenceau,  Georges  Eugene  Benjamin 
Hyndman,  H.  M.     Clemenceau,  the  man 
and  his  time.    '19  Stokes  $2  92 

Works  by  Georges  Clemenceau,  pref.  p.  1 
"[Author  has]  endeavored  not  to  write  a 
biography  of  the  statesman  who  has  been  con- 
stantly in  public  life  for  more  than  fifty  years, 
but  to  give  a  study  of  the  growth  of  a  com- 
manding personality,  who  is  an  honor  to  his 
country,  of  the  surroundings  in  which  his  fac- 
ulties  were    developed."      Introduction 

Lecomte,  Georges.  Georges  Clemenceau, 
the  tiger  of  France;  tr.  by  D.  C.  Stuart. 
'19  Appleton  $1.50  92 

An  intimate  study  of  the  man  and  his  work 
by  a  well-known  French  journalist 

Clemens,  Samuel  Langhorne  (Mark  Twain, 
pseud.) 
Mark  Twain's  letters;  ed.  by  A.  B.  Paine. 
2v  il  '17  Harper  $4  92 

"A  delightful  collection,  explained  and  knit 
together  by  the  comments  of  Mr  A.  B.  Paine, 
whose  biography  of  Mark  Twain  is  uniform  with 
this  volume.  'The  letters  have  all  the  ex- 
travagant humor,  energy  and  imagination  of  his 
books  and  are  besides  revelations  of  a  generous 
personality — irreverent,  yet  given  to  hero  wor- 
ship, frank,  ingenuous,  shrewd  in  his  judgments 
of  people  except  where  his  material  interests 
were  involved,  irascible  in  small  things  and  of 
heroic  fortitude  under  tragic  circumstances. 
Constitutes  a  revelation  of  many  aspects  of 
American  civilization  which  Mark  Twain  so 
broadly  and  many-sidedly  represented.'  "  (Archi- 
bald Henderson  in  Bookman)   Cleveland 

Howells,  W.  D.  My  Mark  Twain;  rem- 
iniscences and  criticisms,  il  '10  Harper 
$1.50  92 

"Delightful  record  of  a  friendship  which  ex- 
tended over  forty-five  years,  with  a  kindly  and 
just  appreciation  of  Clemens'  personality  and 
work.  Part  two  contains  Howell's  reviews  of  his 
books,  1869-1905,  reprinted  from  magazines." 
A.  L.  A.  sup. 

Paine,  A.  B.  Mark  Twain;  a  biography. 
3v  il  '12  Harper  $6;  uniform  trade  ed 
$4.50  92 

"The  authorized  life  written  by  an  intimate 
friend.  Fully  illustrated  and  containing  chron- 
ological list  of  writings  published  and  otherwise, 
1851-1910.      The   work   has   been   done   with    one 


single  aim — to  present  the  great  figure  in  its 
many-sided  activity  and  to  keep  that  picturesque 
personality  constantly  before  the  reader.  Prob- 
ably the  best  biography  ever  written  in  America." 
(William  Lyon  Phelps  in  Independent  74:531) 
N.Y.   state  lib. 

Chronological  list  of  Mark  Twain's  work,  V3 
pi  674-84 

Cleveland,  Grover 

Parker,  G.  F.  Recollections  of  Grover 
Cleveland,  il  '09  Century  $3  92 

"Not  a  complete  biography,  but  sympathetic, 
even  reverent,  studies  of  personality,  character 
and  political  career,  setting  forth  attitudes  toward 
public  questions  and  estimates  of  contempo- 
raries."   A.  L.  A.  sup. 

Cobden,  Richard 

Hobson,  J.  A.  Richard  Cobden,  the  in- 
ternational man.     il  '19  Holt  $5  92 

"By  shifting  the  emphasis  from  Cobden's  early 
and  best  known  activities  in  connection  with  the 
repeal  of  the  Corn  laws  to  his  later  application 
of  his  principle  of  free  trade  to  foreign  affairs 
during  the  period  from  the  opening  of  the 
Crimean  war  to  the  close  of  the  American  Civil 
war,  Mr  Hobson  has  given  us  a  new  view  of 
the  subject,  with  a  modern  attitude  and  expres- 
sion. The  timeliness  of  the  book  is  astonishing. 
It  is  as  if  the  spirit  of  Cobden  had  returned  to 
take  his  place  beside  Lowes  Dickinson  and 
Bertrand    Russell. 

Mr  Hobson  was  fortunate  in  having  new  docu- 
ments to  supplement  those  of  which  Lord  Morley 
made  such  conscientious  use.  The  correspon- 
dence with  Mr  Richard,  of  the  Peace  society, 
and  that  with  Charles  Sumner  occupy  most  of 
the  present  volume."  R.  M.  Lovett  in  Dial 
66:399 

Morley,  John.  Life  of  Richard  Cobden. 
2v  10th  ed  '03  Macmillan  $4  92 

Bibliography,   P957-62 

"Tells  skilfully  Cobden's  share  in  economic 
and  political  movements  in  England  since  the 
reform   act."    A.   L.   A. 

Cohen,  Rose- 

Out  of  the  shadow,  il  '18  Doran  $2  92 

"The  self-told  story  of  a  Jewess  who  came  as 
a  child  from  rural  Russia  to  New  York  city  and 
found  employment  in  a  garment  factory  and 
domestic  service.  She  did  not  rise  in  the  social 
scale  like  Mary  Antin,  or  the  writer  who  signs 
herself  E.  G.  Stern,  nor  did  she  fight  passion- 
ately for  industrial  reform  like  Elizabeth  Hasan- 
ovitch.  The  material  of  her  story  is  family  life 
in  a  poor  Jewish  quarter,  her  experiences  as  a 
wage-earner,  and  the  influence  on  her  life  of 
the  Henry  Street  Settlement  and  the  Presby- 
terian hospital;  her  art  is  that  of  the  born  story- 
teller with  a  feeling  for  atmosphere  and  shades 
of  character  and  for  dialogue  as  the  expression 
of  character,  all  of  which  put  her  book  in  a  dif- 
ferent class  from  many  of  these  immigrant  auto- 
biographies."    Cleveland 

Collyer,  Robert 

Holmes,  J.  H.  Life  and  letters  of  Robert 
Collyer,  1823-1912.    2v  il  '17    Dodd    $5 

92 

"A  sympathetic  and  appreciative  account  of 
the  life  and  personality  of  this  well  known 
Unitarian  minister  built  around  his  own  lectures 
and  letters."    A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

"The  man  whom  Mr  Holmes  holds  up  to  view 
is  Robert  Collyer  the  blacksmith,  preacher,  lec- 
turer, author,  public  leader,  but  always  radiant 
of  spirit,  full  of  grace  and  truth,  touched  with 
the  potency  of  love."    Book  rev.  digest 

Columbus,  Christopher 

Irving,  Washington.  Life  and  voyages 
of  Christopher  Columbus  to  which  are 
added  those  of  his  companions.  5v 
(Knickerbocker  ed.)    Putnam  $6.25     92 

"  'Irving's  work  has  more  than  literary  merit. 
It  is  a  history  written  with  judgment  and  im- 
partiality.' (Harrisse's  Christophe  Colomb)  'Did 
not  draw  characters  with  the  realistic  fidelity  now 


22 


STANDARD    CATALOG 


Columbus,  Christopher — Continued 

in  favor.  He  smoothed  his  portrait  of  Colum- 
bus, and  defects  are  passed  over  in  silence  or 
left  obscure  in  the  background.'  "  (Larned's  Lit- 
erature of  American  history)   Pittsburgh 

The  first  edition  of  "The  life  and  voyages  of 
Christopher  Columbus,"  in  four  volumes,  ap- 
peared in  1828.  "The  voyages  of  the  compan- 
ions of  Columbus,"  in  one  volume,  was  first 
printed  in    1831 

— Same;  (Columbus  only).  (Heroes  of 
the  nations)  Putnam  $1.50  92 

Conrad,  Joseph 

Personal  record.  '12  Harper  $1.50  92 

"Joseph  Conrad,  born  with  a  much  longer  and 
less  easily  pronounceable  name,  is  a  native  of 
Kiev,  Russia.  He  is  of  a  distinguished  family 
which  has  suffered  bitterly  for  its  patriotism. 
Till  the  age  of  thirty-six  he  followed  the  sea; 
then,  he  knows  not  why,  he  sat  down  to  write 
a  novel,  'Almayer's  folly.'  It  was  followed  by 
others  and  he  is  now  acknowledged  one  of  the 
first  of  English  writers.  His  autobiography  i9 
quite  unlike  any  other  that  was  ever  written. 
Its  discursiveness  and  its  chronological  chaos  are 
hardly  to  be  described.  It  is  not  less  full  of 
charm  than  the  rest  of  his  beautiful,  cleanly 
modeled  prose;  it  is  richer  than  some  of  his  work 
in  humor.  Above  all,  it  compels  us  to  see_  and 
feel  things  as  an  intensely  recipient  and  richly 
gifted  spirit  has  seen  them."  (Condensed  from 
Outlook  [London]    1912)  Pittsburgh 

A  brief  appreciation  of  Conrad,  by  Hugh 
Walpole,  is  published  <  by  Holt  at  75c,  in  the 
Writers  of  the  day  series 

Constantine  I,  the  Great,  emperor  of  Rome 

Firth,  J.  B.  Constantine  the  Great:  the 
reorganization  of  the  empire  and  the 
triumph  of  the  church.  (Heroes  of  the 
nations)  il  '05  Putnam  $1.50  92 

"Based  on  a  first-hand  study  of  the_  au- 
thorities and  the  fruit  of  independent  reflection." 
(Nation)  A.   L.  A.  sup. 

Conway,  Moncure  Daniel 

Autobiography,  memories  and  experi- 
ences. 2v  '04  Houghton  $7.50  92 

"Mr  Conway,  during  his  unique  English  ca- 
reer, combined  certain  very  rare  advantages  for 
an  autobiographer.  Himself  the  most  radical  of 
reformers,  he  was  also  the  minister  of  a  church; 
and  this  church  being  absolutely  unsectarian,  left 
everyone  free  to  go  to  it  and  left  its  preacher 
equally  free  from  all  ordinary  restrictions.  He ' 
kept  in  touch  with  all  the  scientific  men,  and, 
what  was  most  remarkable,  with  all  the  doctors 
of  divinity.  English  editors  valued  him  for_  his 
knowledge  of  things  American,  and  American 
publishers  prized  him  for  what  he  knew  about 
Europe."  (Condensed  from  Nation,  1904) 
Pittsburgh 

Conwell,  Russell  Herman 

Acres  of  diamonds,  il  '15  Harper  $1  92 
"Russell  H._  Conwell  has  been  a  popular  plat- 
form speaker  in  America  for  many  years.  One 
of  his  best  known  lectures  has  been  'Acres  of 
diamonds.'  It  is  printed  in  this  volume  together 
with  ...  an  account  of  his  life  by  Robert 
Shackleton  and  a  postscript  from  his  own  pen, 
'Fifty  years  on  a  lecture  platform.'  "  Book  rev. 
digest 

"The  bare  outline  of  Dr  Conwell's  life  may 
well  be  an  inspiration  to  young  men;  a  farmer's 
boy;  a  school  teacher;  a  newspaper  correspon- 
dent; a  soldier;  a  lawyer;  an  author;  a  minister; 
the  most  popular  lecturer  in  the  world;  the  head 
of  _  two_  hospitals;  the  founder  and  head  of  a 
university."  Boston  Transcript,  December  29, 
1915 

Cook,  James 

Besant,  Sir  Walter.  Captain  Cook.  (Eng- 
lish men  of  action)   '90  Macmillan  80c 

92 

"Vivid,  picturesque."  (Critic)  A.  L.  A. 
"There    was,    and   is,    but    one    Captain    Cook, 


yet  who,  among  the  rising  generation,  has  read 
those  volumes  which  describe  how  his  strong 
hand  tore  away  the  veil  from  half  a  world?  .  .  . 
Mr  Besant  passes  by  the  'Voyages,'  for  the  most 
part,  to  sketch  us  the  portrait  of  the  man.  This 
he  has  done  with  clear  and  just  yet  kindly 
touches,  as  was  fitting.  .  .  .  That  it  may  call  re- 
newed attention  to  the  fascinating  story  of  his 
voyages  is  to  be  hoped  and  expected."  (Nation 
1890)    Pittsburgh 

Cooper,  James  Fenimore 

Lounsbury,  T.  R.  James  Fenimore 
Cooper.  (American  men  of  letters)  '83 
Houghton  $1.35  92 

Partial  bibliography  of  Cooper's  writings, 
P290-9 

"Admirable  study  of  Cooper's  work  in  the 
light  of  his  life  and  character."  (N.Y.  state  lib.) 
A.  L.  A. 

Cornwallis-West,  Mrs  Jennie    (Jerome) 

Reminiscences  of  Lady  Randolph 
Churchill,   il   '08   Century  $3.50  92 

"Reminiscences  covering  the  period  1869- 
1900,  and  including  Lady  Randolph's  girlhood<  in 
Paris  and  her  later  experiences  in  the  social, 
diplomatic  and  political  life  of  England  and  the 
Continent."     A.  L.  A.  sup. 

Corrothers,   James    David 

In  spite  of  the  handicap;  an  autobio- 
graphy, il  '16  Doran  $1.25  92 
"Mr  Corrothers  is  of  Scotch-Irish,  Indian  and 
Negro  stock,  and  has  been  engaged  in  nearly 
every  kind  of  work  that  is  open  to_  a  man  of  his 
color— or  any  color — from  blacking  boots  to 
preaching  the  gospel  and  writing  poetry."  Cleve- 
land 

Cowper,  William 

Smith,  Goldwin.  Cowper.  (English  men 
of  letters)   '80  Harper  75c  92 

"The  man,  the  poet,  his  work,  and  his  age, 
portrayed  by  a  scholarly  hand."  (Leypoldt  & 
lies)      A.  L.  A. 

Creevy,  Mrs  Caroline  Alathea  (Stickney) 
A  daughter  of  the   Puritans;  an  autobio- 
graphy, il  '16  Putnam  $1.50  92 

"Recollections  of  a  mid-nineteenth  century 
New  England  childhood  and  girlhood,  recording 
a  family  and  school  life  in  which  the  chief  em- 
phasis was  on  religious  experience  and  the  ruling 
ambition  to  acquire  an  education."    Cleveland 

Cromwell,  Oliver 

Gardiner,  S.  R.  Oliver  Cromwell.  '01 
Longmans  $1.50  92 

"  'A  cautious,  moderate  and  unpartisan  esti- 
mate. ...  A  truly  marvelous  picture  of  Crom- 
well.' (Spectator  1899)  Beautifully  illustrated 
with  reproductions  of  portraits,  busts,  medals, 
seals  and  miniatures  pertaining  to  Cromwell  and 
his   family."    Pittsburgh 

Harrison,  Frederick.  Oliver  Cromwell. 
(Twelve  English  statesmen)  '94  Mac- 
millan 80c  92 

"  'Popular'  in  the  good,  not  in  the  bad  sense 
of  that  term.  It  tells  ordinary  readers  the  facts 
which  men  who  are  not  historians,  but  who  care 
for  history,  want  to  know  about  the  Protector; 
and  it  tells  these  facts  in  a  style  which  is  clear, 
striking  and  unaffected."  (Nation,  1888)  Pitts- 
burgh 

Morley,  John.  Oliver  Cromwell.  1900 
Century  $3.50  92 

"Interest   less   in   narrative   of  Cromwell's   ca- 
reer   than    in    commentary    on    its    critical    phases 
and  on  political  problems."  (Spectator)  A.  L.  A. 
Appeared  in  the  Century  magazine,     V59-60,  No- 
vember,  1899   to   October,    1900 

Cross,    Mary    Ann    (Evans).       See      Eliot, 
George 


BIOGRAPHY— Individual 


23 


Curtis,  George  William 

Cary,  Edward.  George  William  Curtis. 
(American  men  of  letters)  '94  Hough- 
ton   $1.25  92 

"Straightforward  and  satisfactory  biography 
by  one  who  knew  Curtis  well."    A.   L.  A. 

Custer,  George  Armstrong 

Custer,  Mrs  E.  B.     "Boots  and  saddles"; 

or,  Life  in  Dakota  with  General  Custer. 

'02   Harper  $1.50  92 

"Entertaining    account    of    an    army    woman's 

daily  life  in  Dakota."  (N.Y.  state  lib.)  A.  L.  A. 
Custer,  Mrs  E.  B.     Following  the  guidon. 

'90  Harper  $1.50  ?2 

"Continuation  of  'Boots  and  saddles.'  Remin- 
iscences of  army  life  on  the  frontier;  scene  in 
Kansas  when  it  was  considered  the  far  West. 
Embodies  details  of  General  Custer's  campaigns." 
A.  L.  A. 
Custer,  Mrs  E.  B.  Tenting  on  the  plains; 
or,  General  Custer  in  Kansas  and 
Texas.  '95   Harper  $1.50  92 

"Memories  of  military  life  during  the  two  years 
immediately  following  Lee's  surrender."  (Na- 
tion 46:455)  A.  L.  A. 

Dana,  Richard  Henry 

Adams,  C.  F.,  jr.  Richard  Henry  Dana. 
2v  rev   ed   '90   Houghton   $4.50  92 

"Biography  of  the  man  best  known  as  the 
author  of  'Two  years  before  the  mast,'  tho  he 
was  also  an  authority  on  maritime  law,  and 
prominent  in  the  defense  of  the  fugitive  slaves. 
Two-thirds  of  the  book  is  autobiography,  a  large 
part  of  that  a  diary  as  interesting  as  his  famous 
book."     Pittsburgh 

Dante   Alighieri 

Butler,  A.  J.  Dante,  his  times  and  his 
work.  2d  ed  '01  Macmillan  $2.50  92 

Contents:  Thirteenth  century;  Guelfs  and 
Ghibelines;  Dante's  early  days;  Florentine  af- 
fairs till  Dante's  exile;  Dante's  exile;  Corn- 
media;   Minor  works 

Sedgwick,  H.  D.  Dante.  '18  Yale  univ. 
$1.50  92 

"This  small  volume  offers  a  very  human  'per- 
sonal intimacy  with  Dante's  spirit,'  the  interest- 
ing facts  of  his  life,  the  narrative  of  his  'Divine 
comedy'  and  an  appendix  of  sources  for  begin- 
ners who  wish  to  study  his  work."    A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

"Mr  Sedgwick  allows  a  good  deal  of  informa- 
tion, biographical,  critical,  and  allusive,  to 
transpire  by  the  way,  but  his  aim  is  to  pluck  out 
the  heart  of  Dante's  spiritual  mystery."  Nation 
108:697 

C.  H.  Grandgent's  "Dante,"  19 16,  Duffield,  $2 
is  "a  study  of  Dante  which  is  really  an  interpre- 
tation of  the  time  in  which  he  lived." 

Darwin,  Charles  Robert 

Life  and  letters,  including  an  autobio- 
graphical chapter;  ed.  by  his  son,  Fran- 
cis Darwin.  2v  '88  Appleton  $5  92 

"At  once  a  biography,  an  autobiography,  and 
the  history  of  a  great  idea.  The  man  and  his 
work  are  so  presented  as  never  to  be  disso- 
ciated."    (Spectator)    A.    L.   A. 

See  in  connection  with  this  E.  B.  Poulton's 
"Charles  Darwin  and  the  theory  of  natural 
selection,"    1896,    Longmans,   $3 

Darwin,   Mrs  Emma   (Wedgwood) 
Litchfield,     Mrs    H.    E.    D.,    ed.       Emma 
Darwin;    a    century    of    family    letters, 
1792-1896.  2v  il  '15  Appleton  $7.50        92 

"The  first  volume  of  these  delightful  letters 
is  devoted  to  the  correspondence  of  the  daugh- 
ters of  Josiah  Wedgewood,  Mrs  Darwin's 
mother  and  her  sisters,  whose  friendly  circle  in- 
cluded many  of  the  more  interesting  notables  of 
their  time;  in  the  second  volume,  Mrs  Darwin 
herself  is  the  writer  of  many  of  the  letters  which 


give  a  charming  picture  of  the  family  life  of 
the  great  scientist.  'We  cannot  have  too  many 
such  records  of  human  nature  at  its  best.'  " 
(Nation)   Cleveland 

Davies,  William  Henry 

Autobiography  of  a  super-tramp;  with  a 
preface  by  Bernard  Shaw.  '17  Knopf 
$2.50  92 

"It  is,  as  Mr  Shaw  says,  'a  placid  narrative, 
unexciting  in  matter  and  unvarnished  in  man- 
ner, of  the  commonplaces  of  a  tramp's  life'.  The 
author  as  a  young  man  came  to  America  from 
Bristol  to  make  his  fortune  and,  having  quickly 
spent  his  small  savings  set  out  on  a  career  of 
tramping  and  begging,  varied  by  brief  intervals 
of  work,  which  only  ended  when  he  tired  of  it 
and  settled  down,  on  a  legacy  of  eight  shillings 
a  week,  to  write  and  publish  verse."     Pittsburgh 

"A  human  document  in  the  best  sense  of  that 
much  abused  phrase."  Boston  Transcript,  April 
18,    1917 

Davis,  Jefferson 

Dodd,  W.  E.  Jefferson  Davis.  (American 
crisis  biographies)  '07  Jacobs  $1.50      92 

"Sympathetic  yet  judicial,  portraying  the  Con- 
federate president  as  a  man  of  character  and 
great  ability,  who  used  his  resources  to  the  best 
advantage,  but  whose  cause  was  defeated  by  its 
inherent  weakness."     N.Y.  state  lib. 

Gordon,  A.  C.  Jefferson  Davis.  (Figures 
from  American  history)  '18  Scribner 
$1.50  92 

"A  temperate  southern  estimate  of  Jefferson 
Davis.  The  author  believes  that  the  founda- 
tions for  the  issues  which  divided  the  South 
from  the  North  and  West  were  in  differences 
of  environment  rather  than  in  any  essential 
ethical  differences  in  the  people  of  the  two  sec- 
tions. Authorities  cited,  pages  318-24."  A.  L.  A. 
bkl. 

Davis,  Richard   Harding 

Adventures  and  letters  of  Richard  Hard- 
ing Davis;  ed.  by  C.  B.  Davis,  il  '17 
Scribner  $2.50  92 

"Letters  from  the  novelist  and  newspaper  cor- 
respondent in  three  conflicts,  the  Spanish-Ameri- 
can, Boer,  and  Russo-Japanese  wars,  and,  until 
shortly  before  his  death  in  1916,  in  the  present 
war.  The  letters,  like  his  stories  and  his  per- 
sonality, make  an  appeal  to  the  popular  imagina- 
tion. They  are  mostly  addressed  to  his  mother 
and  brother,  the  latter  supplying  explanation  and 
comment."    Cleveland 

Decatur,  Stephen 

Brady,  C.  T.  Stephen  Decatur.  (Beacon 
biographies)  1900  Small  60c  92 

Bibliography,  pi 38-42 

"An  excellent  memoir,  by  a  hero  worshiper 
who  regards  with  indignation  all  criticism  of  his 
idol."    (Nation  70:497)  A.  L.  A. 

Defoe,  Daniel 

Minto,  William.  Daniel  Defoe.  (English 
men  of  letters)  '79  Harper  75c  92 

Trent,  W.  P.  Daniel  Defoe;  how  to 
know  him.  il  '16  Bobbs  $1.50  92 

"Professor  Trent  has  made  of  his  discussion 
of  the  life  and  letters  of  Daniel  Defoe  a  work 
that  is  almost  as  entertaining  to  the  adult  mind 
as  was  'Robinson  Crusoe,'  to  his  childish  thought. 
.  .  .  The  edition  is  recommended  particularly 
to  schools  where  reference  facilities  are  limited." 
School   rev.  24:777 

About  200  pages  are  devoted  to  passages 
from  Defoe's  works,  many  hardly  to  be  found 
except  in  very  large  libraries 

De  Quincey,  Thomas 

Masson,    David.      De    Quincey.    (English 
men  of  letters)   '02  Macmillan  60c       92 
Short  biographical  and  critical  study 


24 


STANDARD    CATALOG 


Dewey,  George 

Autobiography  of  George  Dewey;  ad- 
miral of  the  navy,  new  ed  il  map  '16 
Scribner  $1.50  92 

"Simple  but  effective  narrative  of  a  career 
including  the  most  important  periods  in  the  de- 
development  of  the  United  States  navy,  and  de- 
voting most  space  to  Civil  war  experiences  and 
the  Manila  campaign.  Appeared  in  Hearst's 
magazine."    Cleveland 

Thirty-five  good  illustrations  chiefly  from 
photographs  and  portraits,  map  and  index 

Hannay,  David.  Diaz.  (Makers  of  the 
nineteenth   century)    il    '17   Holt    $2.25 

92 

"An  unprejudiced  account  of  Diaz's  public 
life,  by  an  English  journalist,  who  thus  sums 
up  the  achievements  of  the  Mexican  dictator: 
'He  showed  the  world  what  was  the  utmost  that 
his  country  was  capable  of  doing  in  order  to 
qualify  itself  to  take  its  place  among  civilized 
and  progressive  states,  namely  to  produce  a 
resolute,  heavy-handed  man  who  could  keep  an 
incurable  anarchy  within  bounds  for  an  un- 
precedented period  of  years.'  "    Cleveland 

Diaz,  Porfirio 

Hannay,  David.  Diaz.  (Makers  of  the 
nineteenth  century)    il  '17  Holt  $2.25 

92 

"An  unprejudiced  account  of  Diaz's  public 
life,  by  an  English  journalist,  who  thus  sums 
up  the  achievements  of  the  Mexican  dictator: 
'He  showed  the  world  what  was  the  utmost  that 
his  country  was  capable  of  doing  in  order  to 
qualify  itself  to  take  its  place  among  civilized 
and  progressive  states,  namely  to  produce  a 
resolute,  heavy-handed  man  who  could  keep  an 
incurable  anarchy  within  bounds  for  an  un- 
precedented  period    of   years.'  "      Cleveland 

Dickens,  Charles 

Chesterton,  G.  K.  Charles  Dickens;  a 
critical  study.  '06  Dodd  $1.50  92 

"Suggestive,  appreciative  and  at  times  bril- 
liant essay,  full  of  paradox  and  exaggeration, 
but  illuminating  and  always  entertaining.  Con- 
cludes with  a  general  estimate  of  influence  and 
creative  genius."    A.  L.  A.  sup. 

Forster,  John.  Life  of  Charles  Dickens. 
Gadshill  ed  2v  Scribner  $4  92 

— Same.  (Biographical  ed.)  Lippincott 
$2.50  92 

"A  familiar,  authentic,  revealing,  and  most 
readable  biography  by  an  intimate  friend.  Has 
special  bearing  upon  Dickens'  literary  career  and 
the  circumstances  surrounding  the  production  of 
his    novels."      Pratt    alcove 

The  memorial  edition  issued  in  191 1  by  Chap- 
man, London,  in  anticipation  of  the  Dickens 
centenary  in   1912,  is  now  out  of  print 

Kitton,  F.  G.  Charles  Dickens,  his  life, 
writings  and  personality.  '02  Appleton 
$3.50  92 

"Compendious  biography  by  the  most  eminent 
living  Dickens  scholar,  using  letters  unknown  to 
John  Forster."    A.  L.  A. 

Ward,  A.  W.  Dickens.  (English  men  of 
letters)   '82  Macmillan  60c  92 

Short  biography 
Wiggin,  Mrs  K.  D.     Child's  journey  with 
Dickens.     '12   Houghton   60c  92 

"Slight,  charming  reminiscence  of  the  author's 
chance  meeting  with  Dickens  on  a  Portland- 
Boston  train,  when  she  was  a  child  of  eight  or 
nine.  The  scene  is  presented  very  vividly,  re- 
producing not  only  the  eager  joy  of  the  little 
country  girl  who  was  too  absorbed  in  her  literary 
hero  to  be  self-conscious,  but  Dickens'  amuse- 
ment and  interested  inquiry.  Published  in  the 
Outlook."    A.  L.  A.  bkl. 


Dodd,  Walter  James 

Macy,  John.  Walter  James  Dodd.  '18 
Houghton  $1.50  92 

Walter  James  Dodd  was  an  x-ray  expert  of  in- 
ternational reputation.  Born  in  London,  he  came 
to  this  country  when  a  boy.  His  work  was  a 
series  of  adventures  and  discoveries,  made  at 
great  cost  but  with  great  recompense.  Again 
and  again  his  hands  were  painfully  wounded, 
and  finally,  after  eighty  separate  operations,  he 
paid  for  his  devotion  with  his  life. 

Dodgson,   Charles   Lutwidge.     See    Carroll, 

Lewis,  pseud. 
Dostoevskii,  Feodor  Mikhailovich 

Letters  to  his  family  and  friends;  tr.  by 
E.  C.  Mayne.  il  '14  Macmillan  $2        92 

"These  letters  do  not  completely  outline  the 
great  Russian  novelist's  life,  but  they  mirror 
both  his  weakness  and  greatness,  his  physical 
frailty  and  the  hardships  which  increased  it; 
above  all,  they  record  the  experiences  of  his 
Siberian  exile  which  produced  so  profound  a 
spiritual  change  in  the  man  that  the  message  of 
his  works  is  'as  disturbing  as  that  of  any  Hebrew 
prophet  or  Christian  saint'.  Several  letters  show 
his  relation  to  Turgenieff,  and  one  chapter  gives 
the  youthful  impressions  of  Sophia  Kovalevsky, 
the  mathematician,  of  Dostoevskii,  the  man." 
Cleveland 

Contains  also  "Recollections  of  Dostoevskii," 
by  his  friends 

Soloviev,  E.  A.  Dostoievsky,  his  life  and 
literary  activity;  tr.  from  the  Russian 
by  C.  J.  Hogarth.  '16  Macmillan  $1.75 

92 

"An  excellent  life,  much  fuller  in  biographical 
detail  than  the  sketch  by  Dimitri  Merejkowski, 
and  remarkable  from  the  fact  that  it  mirrors  both 
Dostoevskii's  weakness  and  greatness  without 
trying  to  fit  him  to  a  precise  formula,  as  does 
the  former  critic's  estimate.  Soloviev  recog- 
nizes that  Dostoevskii's  neurotic  temperament 
led  him  into  many  extremes  and  paradoxes,  but 
is  convinced  that  the  great  writer's  belief  in  the 
Russian  masses  with  their  simplicity,  faith  and 
hunger  for  truth,  is  the  cornerstone  of  his 
philosophy.  The  book  is  of  greater  value  on  the 
side  of  Dostoevskii's  personality  and  attitude 
toward  life  in  general  and  the  Russia  of  his  day 
than  as  a  literary  criticism."     Cleveland 

Douglas,  Stephen  Arnold 

Brown,  W.  G.  Stephen  Arnold  Douglas. 
(Riverside  biographical  series)  '02 
Houghton  75c;   school  ed  60c  92 

"Discriminating  sketch  of  _  Lincoln's  _  rival, 
faithfully  presenting  his  part  in  compromises  of 
1850,  Kansas-Nebraska  legislation,  disruption  of 
Democratic  party  of  i860,  and  creation  of  a  War 
party  of  northern  Democrats  after  secession." 
A.   L.  A. 

Willis,  H.  P.  Stephen  A.  Douglas. 
(American  crisis  biographies)  '10 
Jacobs   $1.50  92 

Bibliography    and  bibliographical   notes,   P354-? 

"  'Incisive  study  of  a  great  American  poli- 
tician in  action.  .  .  .  The  conditions  involved 
in  each  of  the  eight  or  ten  critical  games  of 
which  his  political  career  was  composed  are 
carefully  set  forth  by  Mr  Willis.  .  .  .  The 
good  and  bad  motives  and  methods  are  described 
with  equal  composure  and  without  waste  of 
words.'"      (Nation,    191 1)    Pittsburgh 

Douglass,   Frederick 

Washington,   B.  T.  Frederick  Douglass. 

(American    crisis  biographies)     il    '07 

Jacobs  $1.50  92 

"The  book  is  interesting  as  a  general  treat- 
ment of  the  slavery  question  and  as  the  biog- 
raphy of  a  man  of  power,  and  it  is  of  permanent 
value  as  an  account  of  the  Abolition  movement 
from  the  point  of  view  of  a  member  of  the  Negro 
race."    (Dial)    Pratt  quarterly 


BIOGRAPHY— Individual 


25 


Dowden,  Edward 

Letters  of  Edward  Dowden  and  his  cor- 
respondents, il  '14  Dutton  $3  92 

Biographical  note,  P39S-7 

"Letters  covering  fifty  years  (1859-1913)  of 
the  life  of  the  Irish  critic  of  whom  it  is  said 
that  'no  one  of  his  time  surpassed  in  the  power 
of  getting  at  the  structural  idea  of  any  imagi- 
native work.'  Commenting  on  Dowden's  entire 
elimination  of  his  personality  in  his  critical  work, 
his  friend  W.  K.  Magee  says,  'It  is  this  missing 
personal  element  in  his  writings  that  these  let- 
ters come  to  supply.'  However  they  include  also 
much  interesting  formal  literary  judgment  and 
criticism.  Some  of  the  most  delightful  letters 
are  to  Edmund  Gosse  and  John  Burroughs." 
Cleveland 

Dryden,  John 

Saintsbury,  G.  E.  B.  Dryden.  (English 
men  of  letters)  '87  Harper  75c;  Mac- 
millan  60c  92 

Dunsany,     Edward    John     Moreton     Drax 
Plunkett,  18th  baron 
Bierstadt,  E.  H.     Dunsany  the  dramatist, 
il  '17  Little  $1.75  .92 

"A  study  which  expands  in  journalistic 
fashion  the  few  available  facts  of  Dunsany's 
life  and  personality  and  which  has  meaty  chap- 
ters on  his  philosophy  and  theory  of  literary  art. 
Perhaps  the  most  interesting  part  of  the  book 
is  the  lengthy  correspondence  of  Dunsany  with 
Stuart  Walker  with  regard  to  the  latter's  produc- 
tion of  his  plays  in  the  Portmanteau  theatre." 
Cleveland 

Eads,  James  Buchanan 

How,  Louis.  James  Buchanan  Eads. 
(Riverside  biographical  series)  1900 
Houghton  75c;  school  ed  60c  92 

Eastman,  Charles  Alexander 

From  the  deep  woods  to  civilization; 
chapters  in  the  autobiography  of  an 
Indian,  il  '16  Little  $2  92 

"Begins  where  the  writer's  'Indian  boyhood' 
left  off,  when  he  left  his  wild  life  to  enter  mis- 
sion school,  and  continues  thru  his  years  at 
Beloit  and  Dartmouth,  his  medical  studies  at 
Boston  university  and  his  subsequent  work  for 
his  people  as  government  physician  and  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  Indian  secretary.  This  simple  sincere 
account  not  only  covers  the  facts  in  the  life 
of  this  nearly  full-blooded  Sioux  Indian,  but 
gives  glimpses  of  his  feelings,  his  impressions 
gathered  in  college  and  later  life,  and  his  as- 
pirations for  himself  and  his  people."  Cleve- 
land 

Indian   boyhood.     '02  Little  $1.75  92 

"Record  of  the  author's  boyish  impressions 
and  experiences  up  to  the  age  of  fifteen  years. 
Dr  Eastman  is  a  Sioux  Indian,  whose  younger 
days  were  passed  entirely  on  the  plains  of  the 
Northwest  in  the  tribal  life  of  his  family." 
Pittsburgh 

Edison,  Thomas  Alva 

Cooper,  F.  T.  Thomas  A.  Edison.  '14 
Stokes  75c  92 

Dyer,  F.  L.,  and  Martin,  T.  C.  Edison, 
his  life  and  inventions.  2v  il  '10  Harper 
$4  92 

"Full  authorized  biography  of  the  inventor 
and  record  of  his  work.  While  without  any 
literary  pretensions,  the  clear,  direct  style  gives 
the  work  interest  to  readers  of  all  classes." 
A.    L.  A.  sup. 

Jones,  F.  A.  Thomas  Alva  Edison;  sixty 
years  of  an  inventor's  life.  '08  Crowell 
$2  92 

"A  really  fascinating  biography  which  makes 
no  pretence  to  distinctive  literary  style  but  tells 
the  story  of  the  man  and  the  inventor  with  sim- 


plicity, enthusiasm,  and  sincerity.  It  is  indeed 
a  book  for  both  those  interested  in  science  and 
in  life;  it  cannot  fail  to  stimulate  and  inspire 
any  young  man  into  whose  hands  it  may  fall." 
A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

Rolt-Wheeler,  Francis.  Thomas  Alva 
Edison.  (True  stories  of  great  Amer- 
icans) il  '15  Macmillan  50c  92 

"A  sprightly,  anecdotal  and  descriptive  ac- 
count of  the  great  inventor's  life  and  work, 
with  untechnical  explanations  of  his  greatest 
mechanical   discoveries."      Independent   84:484 

Edwards,  Jonathan 

Allen,  A.  V.  G.  Jonathan  Edwards. 
(American  religious  leaders)  '89 
Houghton  $1.35  92 

"Bibliography,    P30i;3 

Brings  out  the  distinctive  features  of  his 
career  as  a  parish  minister,  a  revival  preacher 
and  a  philosophic  theologian."  (N.Y.  observer) 
A.   L.  A. 

Eliot,  Charles 

Eliot,  C.  W.,  ed.  Charles  Eliot,  landscape 
architect.    2v    '02   Houghton   $5  92 

"Charles  Eliot  (1859-97)  was  the  son  of  Pres- 
ident Eliot  of  Harvard  university.  In  his  ten 
years'  practice  of  his  profession  he  made  for 
himself  a  distinct  name  and  place,  especially  in 
his  relations  with  the  work  of  the  Metropolitan 
park  commission  of  Massachusetts.  The  biogra- 
phy, enriched  by  extracts  from  his  journals, 
letters  and  public  papers,  constitutes  a  valuable 
work  on  the  subject  of  his  profession."  Pitts- 
burgh 

Eliot,  George,  pseud. 

George  Eliot's  life  as  related  in  her  let- 
ters and  journals;  arranged  and  ed.  by 
her  husband,  J.  W.  Cross.  3v  '85  Har- 
per $3.75  92 

"Personal  records  of  her  life  from  her  19th 
year  till  three  days  before  her  death.  Intro- 
ductory and  closing  pages  by  editor."      Subtitle 

"Mr  Cross  has  done  his  work  .  .  .  with  ad- 
mirable judgment,  fine  feeling,  and  dignified 
self-subordination  to  his  theme."  Academy, 
1885)    Pittsburgh 

Stephen,  Sir  Leslie.  George  Eliot.  (Eng- 
lish men  of  letters)   '02  Macmillan  75c 

92 

"Keenly  alive  to  her  defects,  his  tribute  to 
her  intellectual  power  of  observation  and  to  the 
richness  of  her  emotional  nature  is  ample 
enough  to  satisfy  all  reasonable  admirers." 
(Athenaeum,   1902)   A.   L.  A. 

Elizabeth,  queen  of  England 

Creighton,  Mandell.  Queen  Elizabeth, 
new  ed  '99  Longmans  $1.50  92 

Emerson,  Ralph  Waldo 
Journals,  with  annotations;  ed.  by  E.  W. 
Emerson  and  W.  E.  Forbes.  lOv  il  '09- 
'14   Houghton   $20  92 

"Hitherto  unpublished  journals  (1820-1876) 
edited  and  annotated  by  Emerson's  son  and 
grandson.  They  deal  with  his  personal  life, 
friendships  and  work,  and  often  give  vivid  first 
form  of  thoughts  later  developed  in  essays  or 
lectures.  Uniform  with  Centenary  edition  of 
his    works."      A.    L.    A.    sup. 

"The  ten  stout  volumes  are  essential  to  a 
full  realization  of  Emerson's  character."  Perry 
Bliss   in   Nation  99:371 

"The  whole  series  casts  much  new  light  upon 
Emerson's  genius  and  should  enhance  his 
greatness."      Nation  98:14 

Firkins,  O.  W      Ralph  Waldo  Emerson. 

'15  Houghton  $2  92 

"The  author  believes  that  Emerson's  idealism 

bears   a  particularly   vital   message   for   the  pres- 


26 


STANDARD    CATALOG 


Emerson,  Ralph  Waldo — Continued 

ent    day   and   attempts   to    interpret   it."      Cleve- 
land 

"A  biographical  and  critical  study  which  is 
the  first  to  have  the  advantage  of  the  wealth  of 
material  contained  in  the  recently  published 
'Journals.'  "      Pratt    quarterly 

Holmes,  O.  W.  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson 
and  John  Lothrop  Motley;  two  mem- 
oirs. (Riverside  ed)  '98  Houghton  $1.60 

92 

Woodberry,  G.  E.  Ralph  Waldo  Emer- 
son. (English  men  of  letters)  '07  Mac- 
millan  75c  92 

"Emerson's  thought  has  never  been  so  clearly 
and  completely  exhibited;  and  therefore  this 
brief  critical  biography  supplants  all  its  pred- 
ecessors." (North  American  rev.)  A.  L.  A. 
sup. 

See  also  Carlyle,  Thomas,  and  Emerson,  Ralph 
Waldo 

Erasmus,  Desiderius 

Froude,  J.  A.  Life  and  letters  of  Eras- 
mus; lectures  delivered  at  Oxford, 
1893-4.  '12  Scribner  $1  92 

"A  brilliant  study  of  the  character  and 
thoughts   of  Erasmus. 

'The  picture  of  the  state  of  Europe  just  be- 
fore the  Reformation,  as  seen  thru  the  eyes  of 
this  great  medieval  scholar,  cannot  be  sur- 
passed in  truth,  vividness  and  interest.'  "  (J.  A. 
Froude)    Pratt   alcove 

Este,  Beatrice  d',  duchess  of  Milan 

Ady,  Mrs  J.  C.  Beatrice  d'Este,  duchess 
of  Milan,  1475-97;  a  study  of  the  renais- 
sance. 3d  ed  '03  Dutton  $3  92 

Bibliography,    pref.    po-n 

"Mot  restricted  to  the  incidents  of  the  family 
relations  and  court  society.  It  shows  in  a 
hundred  ways  how  thoroly  renaissance  life  was 
steeped  in  classicism,  it  investigates  the  political 
aims  of  Ludovico,  it  enters  upon  the  relations 
of  Venice  with  the  northern  states  of  Italy  and 
it  brings  the  French  across  the  Alps  .  .  . 
Beatrice  had  the  good  fortune  to  die  before  her 
husband  lost  his  throne,  and  remained  in  popu- 
lar memory  the  radiant  queen  of  a  golden  age." 
(Nation,    1900)    Pittsburgh 

Este,  Isabella  d',  marchioness  of  Mantua 

Ady,  Mrs  J.  C.  Isabella  d'Este,  mar- 
chioness of  Mantua,  1474-1539;  a  study 
of  the  renaissance,  new  ed  2v  '14  Dut- 
ton $7.50  92 

"List  of  chief  authorities  on  life  and  times 
of  Isabella  d'Este,   vi,   pref.   P12-16 

Gives  a  wide  view  of  the  history  of  the 
time."       (Spectator    90:901)    A.    L.    A. 

"Isabella  and  Beatrice  d'Este  share  with 
Elizabeth  Gonzaga  and  Vittoria  ^olonna  the 
fame  of  having  been  the  most  unusual  and  at- 
tractive princesses  whom  Italy  could  boast  dur- 
ing the  heyday  of  the  renaissance.  Of  the  four 
Isabella  d'Este  was  the  most  successful  in  the 
eye  of  the  world,  and  also,  in  her  own  right,  by 
virtue  of  gifts  and  training,  the  most  brilliant." 
Pittsburgh 

Eulalia,  infanta  of  Spain 

Court  life  from  within,  il  '15  Dodd  $2.50 

92 
"Shrewd  and  not  unkindly  comment  of  a 
Spanish  princess  of  emancipated  views,  on  court 
life  in  Spain,  Italy,  Russia,  the  Scandinavian 
countries,  Germany  and  England,  together  with 
side  lights  on  the  character  of  the  Czar,  the 
Kaiser  and  other  royalties.  The  Infanta  is  a 
sister  of  the  late  Alfonso  XII,  father  of  the 
present  king  of  Spain,  and  was  the  official 
representative  of  that  country  at  the  Chicago 
World's    fair."      Cleveland 


Evans,  Robley  Dunglison 

An  admiral's   log.    il   '10    Appleton    $2.25 

92 

"Sequel  to  'A  sailor's  log,'  continuing  Ad- 
miral Evans'  reminiscences  to  his  retirement. 
Describes  in  simple  downright  style,  his  share 
in  the  visit  of  Prince  Henry,  the  campaign  of 
the  allies  in  China  and  the  battle  fleet's  voyage 
around  the  world."      N.Y.  state  lib. 

A  sailor's  log;  recollections  of  forty  years 
of  naval  life.  '01  Appleton  $2.25  92 

"As  a  sea  yarn  entitled  to  rank  high  for 
humour,  wealth  of  anecdote,  and  variety  of 
scene."      (Nation)   A.   L.  A. 

Evelyn,   John 

Diary  and  correspondence.  2v  (Every- 
man's lib.)  '07  Dutton  $1.40;  lib.  bind- 
ing $1.80  92 

Diary  and  correspondence;  ed.  from  orig- 
inal manuscripts  at  Wotton  by  William 
Bray,  new  ed  4v  (Bohn's  historical  lib.) 
'02   Macmillan  $8  92 

"Less  interesting  than  Pepys',  but  covers 
much  more  extensive  period  (1641-1705)  and 
faithfully  reflects  the  feelings  of  a  loyal,  pious, 
sensible  Englishman  at  various  important  crises 
of  public  affairs."      (Richard  Garnett)   A.   L.  A. 

Only   imported   to   order 

Fagan,  James  Octavius 

Autobiography  of  an  individualist.  '12 
Houghton  $1.35  92 

Contents:  Beginnings  in  Scotland;  Life  prob- 
lems in  South  America;  Travel  and  adventures 
in  Africa;  Impressions  of  New  England  in  the 
eighties;  Men  and  conditions  on  the  railroads; 
Individual  in  modern  industry;  Study  of  three 
presidents;  Riddle  of  the  railroads;  Let  indus- 
try be  free 

"Born  in  Scotland  in  1859  and  educated  in 
an  English  public  school,  Mr  Fagan  left  home 
in  his  youth  _  and  after  somewhat  adventurous 
wanderings  in  South  America  and  South 
Africa,  came  to  America,  where  he  has  long 
since  been  in  the  service  of  an  important  New 
England  railroad.  His  ventures  in  the  field  of 
sociological  and  economic  discussion,  especially 
in  regard  to  railroad  problems,  have  won  for 
him  a  wide  hearing."     Pittsburgh 

Farragut,  David  Glasgow 

Mahan,  A.  T.  Admiral  Farragut.  (Great 
commanders)  '01  Appleton  $1.60  92 

"Ideal  piece  of  brief  biography.  The  sub- 
ject is  excellent,  the  author  perfectly  adapted 
in  every  way  to  treat  it,  and  the  treatment  it- 
self well  calculated  to  inspire  interest  and  just 
admiration  for  the  subject."  (Larned's  Liter- 
ature of  American  history)   Pittsburgh 

"A  valuable  critical  history  of  Farragut's  op- 
erations."     (Nation)   A.   L.  A. 

Fawcett,   Henry 

Holt,  Winifred.  Beacon  for  the  blind,  il 
'14  Houghton  $3  92 

"Sympathetic  and  inspiring  informal  account 
of  a  remarkable,  courageous  personality  and 
his  notable  achievements  in  spite  of  blindness,  in 
Parliament  and  as  postmaster  general  of  Eng- 
land. Supplements  the  more  formal  biography 
by  Leslie  Stephen.  Sixteen  illustrations,  two 
facsimiles,  index."     N.Y.  state  lib. 

Fels,  Joseph 

Fels,  Mrs  Mary.  Joseph  Fels;  his  life- 
work,  il  '16  Huebsch  $1  92 

"The  biography  of  a  business  man  who,  hav- 
ing gained  a  great  fortune,  was  not  satisfied  in 
merely  giving  away  portions  of  it  in  the  name 
of  philanthropy,  but  who  sought  instead  to  ad- 
vance a  constructive  plan  for  a  more  equal 
distribution  of  wealth.  Joseph  Fels,  the  manu- 
facturer of  'Fels-naptha,'  was  an  ardent  advo- 
cate   of    single    tax,    devoting     himself     to     the 


BIOGRAPHY— Individual 


27 


Fels,  Joseph — Continued 

spread  of  propaganda  and  experiment  both  here 
and   in   England."      Book   rev.   digest 

"There  is  comparatively  little  of  the  personal 
element  in  the  book,  which  is  chiefly  devoted  to 
the  constructive  social  work  'of  an  idealist  who 
was  also  a  man  of  business  genius.'  "  Pratt 
quarterly 

Fiske,  John 

Clark,  J.  S.  Life  and  letters  of  John 
Fiske.  2v  il  '17  Houghton  $7.50  92 

"The  long-awaited  authoritative  life  of  our 
most  popular  historian;  one  of  the  most  notable 
biographies  of  the  year.  Mr  Clark,  a  life-long 
friend  and  associate,  makes  skillful  use  of  a 
wealth  of  personal  letters  to  reveal  the  wide 
scope  of  Fiske's  intellectual  activities  and  the 
charm  of  his  many-sided  personality,  while 
graphic  pen  portraits  of  distinguished  con- 
temporaries furnish  a  rich  background."  Cleve- 
land 

Perry,  T.  S.  John  Fiske.  (Beacon  biog- 
raphies)   '05  Small  60c  92 

"Gives  in  brief  compass  not  only  the  essen- 
tial facts  of  his  life  but  an  admirable  estimate 
of  his  historical  and  philosophical  work." 
A.   L.  A.   sup. 

Fleming,  Marjorie 

Macbean,  Leila.  Marjorie  Fleming;  the 
story  of  Pet  Marjorie,  together  with 
her  journals  and  her  letters;  to  which 
is  added  Marjorie  Fleming,  a  story  of 
child-life  fifty  years  ago,  by  John 
Brown,  M.  D.  '04  Putnam  $1.75  92 

"Biography  of  the  little  Scotch  girl  (1803- 
18 11)  whose  friendship  with  Sir  Walter  Scott 
has  been  immortalized  in  Dr  John  Brown's 
'Marjorie  Fleming,'  included  in  this  volume. 
'She  read  history  when  six  years  old,  and  wrote 
diaries  and  poems,  which  were  preserved  by  her 
family.  They  show  singular  quickness,  vivacity, 
and  humor,  while  there  is  no  trace  of  the  mor- 
bid tendencies  too  often  associated  with  infant 
prodigies.'  "  (Dictionary  of  national  biography) 
Pittsburgh 

Foch,  Ferdinand 

Atteridge,  A.  H.  Marshall  Ferdinand 
Foch,  his  life  and  his  theory  of  modern 
war.    '19  Dodd  $2.50  92 

"A  sympathetic,  enlightening  biography  and 
discussion  of  the  military  successes  of  Marshal 
Foch,  intended  for  the  general  reader."  Brook- 
lyn 

Laughlin,  C.  E.  Foch  the  man;  a  life  of 
the  supreme  commander  of  the  allied 
armies,    il  '18  Revell  $1  92 

"A  popular  compact  summary  of  the  main 
events  in  the  public  life  of  Marshal  Foch  from 
his  boyhood  to  his  triumph  as  leader  of  the  allied 
armies.  Descriptions  of  places  and  peoples 
among  which  he  lived  add  color  to  the  narra- 
tive which  shows  his  essential  greatness  of  char- 
acter. Interesting  to  the  general  reader.  Based 
largely  on  a  recent  French  biography  written  by 
Rene  Puaux.  'General  Foch,  an  appreciation' 
by  Robert  Matteson  Johnston  (Houghton  19 18, 
$1)  is  a  briefer  study  which  acquaints  one  with 
the  principles  of  service  and  military  teachings 
of  Foch,  though  not  in  a  technical  way,  still 
giving  an  appreciation  of  the  soldierly  qualities 
added  to  those  of  the  man."     A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

Ford,  Henry 

Lane,  R.  W.  Henry  Ford's  own  story, 
il  '17  E.  O.  Tones,  Forest  Hills,  N.Y. 
for  sale  by  Baker  $1  92 

"A  simple,  unadorned  account  of  the  suc- 
cess of  a  boy  from  a  Michigan  farm,  the  nar- 
rative put  into  form  by  the  author,  from  her 
notes  on  talks  with  the  great  manufacturer  of 
popular-priced  automobiles."      Cleveland 


"The  biography  stops  at  the  outbreak  of  the 
war,  and  there  is  no  mention  of  the  Peace 
party."     A..  L.  A.  bkl. 

Fox,  Charles  James 

Trevelyan,  Sir  G.  O.  Early  history  of 
Charles   James    Fox.    '04    Harper   $2.50 

92 

"Best  picture  ever  drawn  of  the  transition 
from  old  to  new  methods  of  statesmanship." 
(Adams)    A.    L.   A. 

"The  life  of  Fox,  between  1774  and  1782,  is 
so  inextricably  interwoven  with  the  history  of 
the  American  Revolution  that  Trevelyan  has 
treated  this  part  of  Fox's  career  in  his  'Amer- 
ican Revolution.'  "     Pittsburgh 

Francis   of  Assisi,   Saint 

Little  flowers  of  St  Francis;  bound  with 
"The  Mirror  of  perfection"  and  Bona- 
ventura's  "Life  of  St  Francis."  (Every- 
man's lib.)  Dutton  70c;  lib.  binding 
90c  92 

"This  literary  gem  relates  the  life  of  Francis, 
his  companions  and  disciples,  as  it  appeared  to 
the  popular  imagination  at  the  beginning  of  the 
fourteenth  century.  .  .  .  That  which  gives 
these  stories  an  inestimable  worth  is  what  for 
want  of  a  better  term  we  might  call  their  at- 
mosphere. They  are  legendary,  worked  over, 
exaggerated,  false  even,  if  you  please,  but  they 
give  us  with  a  vivacity  and  intensity  of  color- 
ing something  that  we  shall  search  for  in  vain 
elsewhere — the  surroundings  in  which  St  Fran- 
cis lived.  More  than  any  other  biography  the 
Fioretti  transport  us  to  Umbria,  to  the  moun- 
tains of  the  March  of  Anconia;  they  make  us 
visit  the  hermitages,  and  mingle  with  the  life, 
half  childlike,  half  angelic,  which  was  that  of 
their  inhabitants.  .  .  .  In  default  of  ac- 
curacy of  detail,  the  incidents  which  are  related 
here  contain  a  higher  truth — their  tone  is  true. 
Here  are  words  that  were  never  uttered,  acts 
that  never  took  place,  but  the  soul  and  the  heart 
of  the  early  Franciscans  were  surely  what  they 
are  depicted  here."     (Paul  Sabatier)   Pittsburgh 

Cuthbert,  Father.  Life  of  St  Francis  of 
Assisi.  il  '12   Longmans  $2.50  92 

Sources  of  our  knowledge  of  St  Francis, 
P417-46 

"A  clear,  direct  narrative  by  a  devout  Roman 
Catholic  scholar.  Based  on  careful  research,  it 
adds  newly  discovered  data  to  the  investiga- 
tions of  Sabatier  and  other  biographers,  and  is 
designed  for  serious-minded  students  who  de- 
sire an  accurate,  unadorned  account  of  St. 
Francis'  life,  work  and  influence  on  his  age, 
rather  than  a  beautiful  romance."  A.  L.  A. 
bkl. 

"For  the  scholar  possesses  the  merit  of  very 
accurate  documentation,  and  for  the  general 
reader  the  literary  charm  that  comes  from  an 
intimate  and  sympathetic  understanding  of  a 
character  of  singular  beauty."  (Cath.  world, 
1912)  Pittsburgh 

Egan,  M.  F.  Everybody's  St.  Francis,  il 
'12   Century  $2.50  92 

Appeared  in  the  Century,  V84,  May  to 
August    19 12 

"Simple  and  reverent  account  of  the  life  and 
work  of  one  of  the  most  loved  saints  in  his- 
tory. There  are  eight  full-page  illustrations  in 
color  and  twelve  in  black  and  white."  Pitts- 
burgh 

"This  book  is  not  a  formal  biography  of  the 
Saint — rather  it  is  a  character  study — an  an- 
alysis of  his  feelings,  his  aims,  his  motives — ■ 
set  forth  in  a  simple  way."     Cath.  world 

Sabatier,  Paul.  Life  of  St  Francis  of 
Assisi;  tr.  by  L.  S.  Houghton.  '94 
Scribner  $2.50  92 

"Conscientious  study  of  sources  and  sym- 
pathetic narration,  giving  an  impression  of  the 
real  man,  consistent  with  himself  and  his  sur- 
roundings."     (N.Y.  state  lib.)      A.  L.  A. 

"The    popular    imagination     of     Italy     retains 


28 


STANDARD   CATALOG 


Francis  of  Assisi,  Saint — Continued 

his  image,  while  grave  historians,  unfamiliar 
with  childlike  genius  touched  with  heavenly 
radiance,  have  fumbled  over  their  records  and 
missed  the  meaning  of  such  gracious,  guileless 
sainthood.  M  Sabatier,  by  sheer  sympathy  of 
spirit,  has  caught  the  clue,  and  put  it  into  his 
reader's  hands."        (Dial,    1894)   Pittsburgh 

Franklin,  Benjamin 

Autobiography    of     Benjamin     Franklin; 

the    unmutilated     and    correct   version, 

comp.  and  ed.  with  notes  by  John  Big- 

elow.  '12  Putnam  $1.50  92 

"Not  only  one  of  the  most  widely  read  and 
most  readable  books  in  our  language,  but  has 
had  the  distinction  of  enriching  the  literature 
of  nearly  every  other."  (John  Bigelow) 
A.   L.   A. 

"  'The  style  of  this  work'  is  inimitable;  it  is 
as  simple,  direct,  idiomatic  as  Bunyan's.'  It  is 
the  straightforward  life-story  of  a  typically 
American  character  endowed  with  the  great 
powers  developed  by  self-education,  who  ex- 
erted vast  influence  as  a  citizen  and  statesman 
for  his  own  day  and  for  the  future  of  his  coun- 
try."    Pratt  alcove 

— Same;  with  il.  by  E.  Boyd  Smith;  ed. 
by  T.  W.  Pine.    '16  Holt  $2  92 

Bibliography,    P343-6 

Memoirs  of  the  life  and  writings  of  Ben- 
jamin Franklin.  (Everyman's  lib.)  '13 
Dutton  70c;  lib.  binding  90c  92 

Contents:  Autobiography;  Some  account  of 
Franklin's  later  life,  principally  in  relation  to 
the  history  of  his  time,  by  William  Macdonald 

Bruce,  W.  C.  Benjamin  Franklin  self- 
revealed.  2v  '17  Putnam  $6  92 

"A  biography  which  characterizes  Franklin, 
his  moral  standing,  as  philanthropist,  his  fam- 
ily relations,  his  European  friends,  as  a  man 
of  business,  a  man  of  science,  statesman  and 
writer.  It  is  critical  and  accurate,  citing  much 
from  Franklin's  own  writings.  It  received  the 
thousand  dollar  Pulitzer  prize  offered  by  Colum- 
bia university  for  the  best  biography  of  the  year 
[19 1 7]  teaching  patriotic  and  unselfish  service 
to  the  people."     A.   L.   A.   bkl. 

Ford,  P.  L.  Many-sided  Franklin.  '99 
Century  $3  92 

"Emphasizes  the  many-sidedness  of  Franklin's 
genius  by  treating  in  each  chapter  a  separate 
phase  of  his  varied  activity.  The  printer,  the 
journalist,  the  scientist,  the  diplomat,  the  ad- 
ministrator, the  family  man,  the  lover,  and  the 
friend  are  in  turn  set  before  the  reader,  and 
the  effect  produced  is  more  lifelike  than  that  of 
the   usual   chronological    narrative. 

Franklin's  'Autobiography'  ends  at  the  be- 
ginning of  his  career  as  a  diplomatist.  In  the 
'Life  of  Benjamin  Franklin'  edited  by  John 
Bigelow  the  'Autobiography'  is  continued,  from 
Franklin's  correspondence  and  other  writings, 
to  the   time   of  his   death."      Pittsburgh 

Morse,  J.  T.,  jr.  Benjamin  Franklin. 
(American  statesmen)  '89  Houghton 
$1.35  92 

"Ranks  high  among  minor  biographies  of 
Franklin."      A.    L.   A. 

An  authentic  account  of  Franklin's  career  as 
a  printer  was  published  for  the  Associated  ad- 
vertising clubs  of  the  world,  in  19 17,  by  Double- 
day,   at  $2 

Fraser,  Mrs  Mary  (Crawford) 

Diplomatist's  wife  in  many  lands,  new 
ed  il  '18  Dodd  $3  92 

"Fascinating  reminiscences,  vividly  written,  of 
her  childhood  and  early  life  in  Italy,  the 
United  States  and  England,  and  later  residence 
in  China  and  Austria."  (N.Y.  state  lib.) 
A.   L.   A.   sup. 


Reminiscences  of  a  diplomatist's  wife; 
further  reminiscences  of  a  diplomatist's 
wife  in  many  lands,  il  '12   Dodd  $3.50 

92 

"Rather  more  random  and  fragmentary  than 
the  earlier  published  memories  of  author's  offi- 
cial and  social  life  abroad,  but  delightful  in 
their  fresh,  vivacious  and  friendly  descriptions 
of  notable  people  and  experiences  in  England, 
Bavaria,  Polish  Prussia,  Chile,  etc.,  and 
especially  of  life  in  her  brother's  (Marion 
Crawford)    villa   in    Sorrento."      N.Y.    state    lib. 

Frederick  II,  the  Great,  king  of  Prussia 

Carlyle,    Thomas.      History   of    Friedrich 

II    of    Prussia,     called     Frederick     the 

Great.  8v   (Centenary  ed.)    1900  Scrib- 

ner  $1.75  ea  92 

"Edition  with  introduction  by  H.  D.  Traill. 
Founded  on  exhaustive  study  and  careful  ob- 
servation. One  of  the  most  remarkable  books 
in  the  English  language."      (Adams)  A.  L.  A. 

— Same.  (People's  ed.)  lOv  Scribner  50c 
ea  92 

Fremont,  John  Charles 

Dellenbaugh,  F.  S.  Fremont  and  '49.  il 
maps  '14   Putnam  $4.50  92 

Bibliography,    P483-502 

"The  material,  painstakingly  gathered,  in- 
cludes much  of  interest  on  early  western  ex- 
ploration, but  in  too  detailed  and  expensive 
form  for  average  libraries,  save  where  there  is 
a  strong  local  demand.  Interesting  illustrations 
from  photographs,  prints  and  sketches."  A.  L.  A. 

"An  enthusiastic  account  of  the  adventurous 
career  of  the  army  officer  who  conducted  the 
earliest  government  explorations  of  the  Far 
West,  and  paved  the  way  for  the  winning  of 
California  and  the  extension  of  the  United 
States  control   to  the  Pacific  coast."     Cleveland 

French,  Sir  John 

Chisholm,  Cecil.  Sir  John  French,  il  '15 
Stokes  50c  92 

"Sketches  his  military  career,  devoting  most 
space  to  his  cavalry  achievements  in  the  Boer 
war,  with  some  reference  to  his  present  services 
as  supreme  commander  of  the  British  forces. 
Slight,  but  of  timely  interest  as  the  only 
biography."      A.    L.   A.   bkl. 

Fritz,  John 
Autobiography.  '12  Wiley  $2  92 

"John  Fritz  (b.  1822)  has  been  closely  identi- 
fied with  the  development  of  the  iron  and  steel 
industry  in  Pennsylvania.  He  describes  the 
building  of  the  three-high  rail  mill  at  the  Cam- 
bria works,  of  the  Bessemer  plant  at  Bethlehem 
and  of  the  open-hearth  plant,  also  at  Bethle- 
hem. His  will  power  and  great  physical  and 
mental  energy  are  strongly  marked  thruout  the 
book."      Pittsburgh 

"The  book  should  be  in  the  library  of  every 
engineer.  It  should  be  read  from  cover  to 
cover  by  every  young  engineer,  who  can  find 
no  other  worthier  example  to  emulate  than 
John    Fritz."      Indust.   engin.    11:474 

Frobel,  Friedrich 

Bowen,  H.  C.  Froebel  and  education  by 
self-activity.  (Great  educators)  '93 
Scribner  $1.25  92 

"Brief  life,  with  detailed  statement  of 
Frobel's  principles  and  methods  of  training." 
(N.Y.  state  lib.)      A.   L.  A. 

Fulton,  Robert 

Sutcliffe,  Mrs  A.  C.  Robert  Fulton. 
(True  stories  of  great  Americans)  il 
'15  Macmillan  50c  92 

"Mrs  Sutcliffe  has  given  us  a  life  of  Fulton 
which  has  great  merit.  It  is  written  for  young 
people  but  will  give  most  adults  a  fund  of  in- 
formation _  about  the  great  inventor  and  en- 
gineer which  they  could  hardly  find  elsewhere 
in    the    same    compass.      The    story    of    Fulton's 


BIOGRAPHY— Individual 


29 


Fulton,  Robert — Continued 

career  is  very  complete  in  a  general  way,  altho 
the  limited  space  obviously  shuts  out  details  of 
the  less  important  periods  of  his  life."  Amer. 
hist.  rev.  21:182 
Sutcliffe,  Mrs  A.  C.  Robert  Fulton  and 
the    "Clermont."    il    '09    Century   $1.20 

92 

"Authoritative  biography  by  Fulton's  great- 
granddaughter,  founded  on  family  documents 
and  dealing  with  his  early  experiments  on  the 
Seine  as  well  as  with  the  successful  Hudson 
river  demonstration."     A.   L.  A.  sup. 

Appeared  in   part  in   the   Century 

Funston,  Frederick 

Memories    of    two   wars,    il   '14    Scribner 
$1.50  92 

"This  book  has  the  qualities  both  of  stirring 
adventure  and  information.  A  third  is  given  to 
experiences  in  the  Cuban  insurrectionary  forces 
in  1896  and  1897:  the  remainder  deals  with  the 
service  of  the  author  as  the  colonel  of  a  Kansas 
volunteer  regiment  in  the  Philippines."  Amer. 
hist.    rev.     17:856 

"The  general  has  told  his  often  thrilling  story 
in  an  admirably  direct  and  simple  style  that 
recalls  pleasantly  the  remarkable  memoirs  of  our 
great  soldiers  of  the  Civil  war — Grant,  Sherman 
and  Sheridan."     Nation  99:226 

Gallatin,  Albert 

Stevens,  J.  A.  Albert  Gallatin.  (Amer- 
ican statesmen")  Houghton  $1.35  92 
"A  political  history,  1700-1816.  Chapter  six, 
devoted  to  Gallatin's  administration  of  the 
treasury,  a  useful  monograph  on  financial  his- 
tory of  the  period."     A.   L.  A. 

Galton,  Francis 

Memories  of  my  life,  il  '09  Dutton  $4  92 
"Francis  Galton  is  what  may  be  called  a 
good  'all-around'  man  of  science.  He  has  been 
an  able  statistician,  a  meteorologist,  a  'finger- 
print' classifier,  a  founder  of  anthropometrical 
and  psychological  laboratories,  an  _  explorer,  a 
pedagogue,  an  authority  on  heredity,  and  the 
founder  of  'eugenics.'  These  pleasantly  written 
memoirs  tell  the  story  of  his  manifold  activities 
in  a  simple,  unaffected  way,  and  give  one  many 
a  rare  glimpse  of  the  great  scientists  who  made 
the  closing  half  of  the  nineteenth  century  one 
of  the  most  remarkable  periods  in  the  history  of 
the   world."      Pittsburgh 

Garland,  Hamlin 

A  son  of  the  middle  border,  il  '17  Mac- 
millan  $1.60  92 

"A  narrative  of  a  youth  spent  in  toil  among 
the  hard,  homely  pioneer  conditions  in  Wis- 
consin and  Iowa  after  the  Civil  war  and  of  later 
struggles  in  Boston  to  become  a  professional 
man  of  letters.  Mr  Garland  is  unusually  suc- 
cessful in  his  portraits  of  his  father  and 
mother.  .  A  notable  memorial  of  a  by- 
gone phase  of  American  life."   _  Cleveland 

"In  all  the  region  of  autobiography,  so  far 
as  I  know  it,  I  do  not  know  quite  the  like  of 
Mr  Garland's  story  of  his  life,  and  I  should 
rank  it  with  the  very  greatest  of  that  kind  in 
literature.  ...  As  you  read  it  you  realize 
it  the  memorial  of  a  generation,  of  a  whole 
order  of  American  experience;  as  you  review  it 
you  perceive  it  an  epic  of  such  mood  and  make 
as  has  not  been  imagined  before."  W.  D. 
Howells  in  N.Y.  Times  22:309 

'The  autobiographer  is  a  rarer  bird  than  the 
novelist;  and  we  believe  that  this  record  may 
take  its  place  among  the  handful  of  American 
classics  of  this  kind."      Nation    105:719 

•Garrison,  William  Lloyd 

Chapman,  J.  J.     William  Lloyd  Garrison. 
'13   Moffat  $1.25  92 

"A  brilliant  rhapsody,  backed  by  solid  schol- 
arship, which  expresses  as  nothing  less  en- 
thusiastic could  the  spirit  of  the  abolitionists 
and  their  leader.      Portrait."  N.Y.  state  lib. 


Garrison,  W.  P.,  and  F.  J.  William  Lloyd 
Garrison,  1805-1879;  by  his  children.  4v 
'94  Houghton  $9  92 

"Possibly  too  expensive  for  many  libraries, 
but  as  the  authoritative  life  must  be  mentioned. 
Full  biography  written  with  the  reverential  ad- 
miration of  children  rather  than  from  the  point  of 
view  ot  a  dispassionate  and  critical  historian; 
also  virtually  a  history  of  the  anti-slavery 
struggle."      (Eng.   hist.   rev.    1:185)    A.    L.   A. 

Smith,  Goldwin.  A  moral  crusader.  '92 
Funk  $1  92 

"Biographic  essay  containing  the  pith  of  the 
story  of  Garrison's  life  told  by  his  children.  A 
resume^  put  with  the  clearness  and  power  of  one 
of  our  first  masters  of  English,  of  the  career  of 
one  of  our  purest  and  strongest  men."     A.  L.  A. 

Swift,  Lindsay.  William  Lloj  J  Garrison. 
(American  crisis  biographies)  '11 
Jacobs  $1.50  92 

"Brief  biography  based  on  the  four  volume 
life.  It  throws  little  new  light  on  either  Gar- 
rison or  the  abolition  movement,  but  presents  a 
clearly  outlined  picture  of  the  man  and  his 
times."      A.    L.   A.   sup. 

Genseric 

Bigelow,  Poultney.  Genseric,  king  of  the 
Vandals  and  first  Prussian  kaiser.  '18 
Putnam  $1.50  92 

"  'A  clever  and  entertaining  book  on  Gen- 
seric, the  Vandal  king  who  conquered  Roman 
Africa  in  the  fifth  century.  The  career  of 
Genseric  is  a  closer  parallel  than  Attila's  to 
that  of  William  II,  for  he  conquered  by  fraud 
and  double  dealing  as  well  as  by  violence.' 
(Nation) 

The  author  is  critical  in  his  attitude  toward 
the  Roman  Catholic  church  as  a  factor  in  Euro- 
pean   history."      Cleveland 

Gibbon,  Edward 

Autobiographies  of  Edward  Gibbon, 
printed  verbatim  from  hitherto  unpub- 
lished manuscripts,  with  an  introd.  by 
the  Earl  of  Sheffield.  (World's  clas- 
sics)  '07  Oxford  45c  92 

"Fragments  of  an  autobiography  in  the  form 
in  which  they  were  left  by  Gibbon.  His  friend, 
the  Earl  of  Sheffield,  edited  the  material  em- 
bodied in  this  volume  and,  incorporating  with 
it  passages  from  Gibbon's  journal  and  letters, 
wove  the  complete  narrative  of  his  life.  Several 
convenient  editions  exist  of  the  revised  and 
readable  form  of  the  autobiography,  including 
the   Everyman's   library  issue."      Pratt  alcove 

"  'It  is  indeed  so  short  that  it  can  be  read 
by  the  light  of  a  single  pair  of  candles;  it  is  so 
interesting  in  its  subject,  and  so  alluring  in  its 
turns  of  thought  and  its  style,  that  in  a  second 
and  a  third  reading  it  gives  scarcely  less  pleas- 
ure than  in  the  first.  Among  the  books  in 
which  men  have  told  the  story  of  their  own 
lives  it  stands  in  the  front  rank.'  (George  B. 
Hill)  'There  is  hardly  any  self-told  life  in  any 
language  which  is  more  attractive  than  the  auto- 
biography of  Edward  Gibbon,  in  which  he  re- 
counts the  story  of  his  own  career  in  the  same 
stately,  pure  prose  in  which  he  narrates  the 
'Decline  and  fall  of  Rome.'  "  (Phillips  Brooks) 
Pittsburgh 

Memoirs  of  Edward  Gibbon;  written  by 
himself,  and  a  selection  from  his  let- 
ters; with  occasional  notes  and  narra- 
tive by  Lord  Sheffield;  ed.  by  H. 
Morley.   '14   Dutton   $1.50  92 

Gibbons,  James,  cardinal 

Will,  A.  S.  Life  of  James,  cardinal  Gib- 
bons, il  '11  J.  Murphy  $2  92 

"A  formal  biography  devoted  almost  wholly 
to  Gibbons'  ecclesiastical  career.  Of  special  in- 
terest to  Roman  Catholics  and  of  general  inter- 
est  as   an   authoritative  presentation   of  the  aims 


30 


STANDARD    CATALOG 


Gibbons,  James,  cardinal — Continued 

of  the  church  in   America."     A.   L.  A.  sup. 

See  also  Cardinal  Gibbons'  "Retrospect  of 
fifty  years,"   19 16,  Murphy,  2V,   $2 

Gilder,  Richard  Watson 

Letters;  ed.  by  his  daughter,  Rosamond 
Gilder,  il  '16  Houghton  $4  92 

"These  personal  letters  and  extracts  from 
journals  reveal  the  active  and  interesting  life 
of  the  late  editor  of  the  Century  magazine,  his 
work  as  poet,  writer  and  civic  reformer  and  his 
friendships  with  Grover  Cleveland,  'J0'  Jeffer- 
son, Saint  Gaudens,  and  other  important  figures 
in  political  and  artistic  circles."     N.Y.  state  lib. 

"Pictures  a  life  of  great  happiness,  of  sim- 
plicity, and  of  devotion  to  high  ideals  of  ser- 
vice to  city,   state   and  country."      Wis.  bul. 

Gladstone,   William    Ewart 

Bryce,  James.  William  Ewart  Glad- 
stone, his  characteristics  as  man  and 
statesman.  '98   Century  $1  92 

"Thoroly  satisfactory  monograph,  portraying 
the  man,  author,  statesman  and  orator,  by  a 
personal  friend  and  political  ally."  (N.Y.  state 
lib.)   A.   L.  A. 

Morley,  John.  Life  of  William  Ewart 
Gladstone,  new  ed  3v  in  2  '03  Macmil- 
lan   $5  92 

"A  masterpiece  of  historical  writing,  of  which 
the  interest  is  absorbing,  the  authority  indis- 
putable,  and   the   skill   consummate."      A.   L.   A. 

Goethe,  Johann  Wolfgang  von 

Autobiography;  truth  and  poetry  from 
my  own  life;  tr.  by  John  Oxenford. 
(Bohn's  standard  lib.)  rev  ed  2v  '91 
Macmillan   $4  92 

— Same;  tr.  by  Minna  Smith.  2v  Macmil- 
lan $1.75  ea  92 

Lewes,  G.  H.  Life  and  works  of  Goethe. 
(Everyman's  lib.)  Dutton  70c;  lib  bind- 
ing 90c  92 

First  published  in  1856 

Thomas,    Calvin.     Goethe.     '17    Holt     $2 

92 

Bibliography  and  notes,  P355-61 
"The  author,  who  has  written  a  good  life  of 
Schiller  and  an  excellent  history  of  German 
literature,  says:  'Every  scholar  has  his  own 
Dante,  his  own  Shakespeare  and  his  own 
Goethe.  This  book  represents  my  Goethe  after 
nearly  forty  years  of  university  teaching.' 

The  first  part  of  the  volume  consists  of  a 
short  biography,  the  second  part,  Studies  and 
appreciations,  deals  in  several  independent 
monographs  with  the  larger  and  more  memor- 
able aspects  of  Goethe's  life  work.  The  bi- 
ography is  outspoken  and  interesting  but  will 
not  take  the  place  of  Lewes'  fascinating  life  of 
Goethe  in  English,  nor  of  the  English  transla- 
tions of  the  scholarly  and  complete  German 
biographies  by  Bielchowsky  and  Duntzer." 
Cleveland 

Goldsmith,  Oliver 

Dobson,  Austin.  Life  of  Oliver  Gold- 
smith. (Great  writers)  '88  Scribner 
$1.25  92 

Bibliography,   23    pref.   p. 

"In  many  respects  a  model  of  short  bi- 
ography .  .  .  Mr  Dobson's  narrative  is  clear 
and  well-arranged,  and  his  remarks  on  Gold- 
smith's literary  work  are  full  of  common  sense." 
(Athenaeum,    1888)   Pittsburgh 

Irving,  Washington.  Oliver  Goldsmith 
2v  (Knickerbocker  ed.)  '97  Putnam 
$2.50  92 

"One  of  the  best  biographies  in  the  whole 
range  of  English  literature;  just,  full,  brilliant  " 
(C.   F.   Richardson)    A.   L.   A. 


Gordon,  Charles  George 

Butler,  Sir  W.  F.  Charles  George  Gor- 
don. (English  men  of  action)  '91  Mac- 
millan  80c  92 

Limited  stock;  not  likely  to  be  replenished 
"Nothing  in  the  record  of  half  a  century  is 
so  heroic  as  the  death  of  Gordon,  nothing  is  so 
full  of  the  spirit  of  self-abnegation  and  devo- 
tion to  mankind.  .  .  .  Sir  William  Butler 
was  a  friend,  a  brother  soldier,  and  a  member 
of  the  'too  late'  relief  expedition.  .  .  .  Above 
all  he  is  in  sympathy  with  the  ideals  and  chiv- 
alrous thoughts  that  guided  his  hero.  None  can 
read  this  book  without  feeling  that  Gordon's 
spirit  inspires  it."  (Athenaeum,  1889)  Pitts- 
burgh 

Gorky,  Maxim,  pseud. 

In  the  world;  tr.  by  Mrs  G.  M.  Foakes. 
'17   Century  $2  92 

"Continues  the  autobiography  begun  in  'My 
childhood.'  Covers  the  years  of  Gorky's  early 
youth,  when  as  door-boy  in  a  shoe  shop,  drudge 
in  the  house  of  an  architect,  dishwasher  on  a 
Volga  steamer,  apprentice  in  an  icon  painter's 
establishment,  he  wandered  and  worked  his  way 
about  the  Russian  underworld.  The  splendid 
figure  of  his  grandmother  reappears  occasionally 
and  explains  in  a  great  measure  the  miracle  by 
which  the  lonely  boy  escaped  shipwreck." 
Pittsburgh 

"Out  of  the  rubble  of  human  existence  his 
genius  is  building  up  one  of  the  great  life- 
stories  in  literature."     New  republic  13:26 

"Gorky  wrote  fiction  as  if  it  were  auto- 
biography; he  writes  autobiography  as  if  it  were 
fiction.  .  .  .  The  result  is  essentially  a  novel, 
with  himself  as  its  hero."  Boston  Transcript, 
August   8,    19 1 7 

My  childhood,  il  '15  Century  $2  92 

"An  unsparing  record  of  the  Russian  writer's 
home  life  from  earliest  childhood  until  his 
grandfather  turned  him  out  to  shift  for  himself 
at  eight.  A  picture  of  Russian  peasant  life  at 
once  charming  and  revolting  and  full  of  re- 
markable character  sketches,  notably  the  won- 
derful old  grandmother,  a  snuff-taking,  vodka- 
drinking  saint,  of  whom  he  says,  'her  influence 
connected  all  my  impressions  by  a  single  thread 
and  wove  them  into  a  pattern  of  many  colors, 
and  her  love  enriched  me  and  built  up  the 
strength  needful  for  a  hard  life.'  "     Cleveland 

Appeared  in  the   English   review 

Gosse,  Edmund   William 

Father  and  son;  biographical  recollec- 
tions. '07  Scribner  $1.50  92 

"Record  of  the  author's  childhood  and  youth 
in  a  home  where  the  most  austere  Puritanism 
prevailed;  of  his  father,  a  scientist  of  distinc- 
tion, devoted  first  of  all  to  the  religious  bring- 
ing up  of  his  son.  Tells  of  the  development  of 
the  boy's  individuality,  and  the  final  break  be- 
tween father  and  son,  between  the  rigid  religion 
of  the  past  and  the  liberality  of  the  present, 
which  sacrificed  neither  the  love  of  the  father 
nor  the  respect  of  the  son.  Written  with  great 
charm,  with  delicacy  of  feeling,  poetic  insight, 
and  not  a  little  humor."     A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

Grant,  Ulysses  Simpson 

Personal  memoirs.    2d  ed  2v  '95  Century 

92 

"Covers  the  course  of  the  author's  life  down 
to  the  close  of  the  Civil  war.  When  one  con- 
siders that  the  writer  was  a  man  of  action,  al- 
together without  experience  in  literary  work, 
one  is  surprised  at  the  remarkable  skill  with 
which  the  narrative  is  written.  The  sentences 
often  have  the  same  pithy  directness  and  brevity 
that  marked  his  dispatches  from  the  field  of 
battle.  As  a  general  he  mastered  details  but 
was  not  overwhelmed  by  them:  so  here,  he  sees 
the  whole  field  and  leads  the  reader  easily  along 
from  one  principal  event  to  another.  The  naive 
simplicity  and  lack  of  affectation  so  characteris- 
tic of  the  author  are  noticeable  features  of  the 
work."  (Larned's  Literature  of  American  his- 
tory)    Pittsburgh 


BIOGRAPHY— Individual 


31 


Grant,  Ulysses  Simpson  —Continued 

"Grant's  grandly  simple  record  of  his  own 
life   is   a  true  classic."      Theodore   Roosevelt 

Coolidge,  L.  A.  Ulysses  S.  Grant,  il  '17 
Houghton   $2  92 

"Mr  Coolidge  has  used  the  best  books  relat- 
ing to  the  subject,  and  particularly  everything 
personally  relating  to  Grant,  except  the  material 
in  the  Civil  war  records.  He  has  not,  however, 
familiarized  himself  with  recent  monographic 
literature,  or  with  the  economic  and  social 
movements  of  the  time,  which  emphatically  in- 
fluenced Grant's  career,  altho  they  left  his  per- 
sonality untouched.  ...  He  seems  also  -not 
to  possess  a  sufficient  background  of  military 
knowledge  to  give  force  to  his  military  criticism. 
Grant,  however,  man  and  boy,  by  quotation  and 
incident,  stands  out  more  clearly  than  in  any 
previous  account.  .  .  .  The  study  of  Grant 
in  some  respects  is  apt  to  prove  final."  C.  R. 
Fish  in  Amer.  hist.  rev.  22:885 

"Mr  Coolidge  devotes  about  two  thirds  of  his 
book  to  Grant's  political  and  one  third  to  his 
military  career.  General  King  and  Mr  Ed- 
monds devote  a  small  portion  of  their  books  to 
Grant's  life  after  the  close  of  the  Civil  war." 
A.   L.   A.   bkl. 

King,  Charles.  True  Ulysses  S.  Grant, 
il  map  '14  Lippincott  $2  92 

"  'A  full  and  popular  account  of  Grant's  life 
as  told  by  a  general  of  the  U.S.  army.  _  All  of 
Grant's  campaigns  are  covered  in  considerable 
detail  and  a  glimpse  is  also  given  of  Grant  the 
man    and    the    President.' "      Cleveland 

Wister,  Owen.  Ulysses  S.  Grant.  (Bea- 
con biographies)  1900  Small  60c  92 

Bibliography,    P141-S 

"Strong  in  its  contrasts.  Full  chronology  a 
most  attractive  and  valuable  feature."  (Amer. 
hist.    rev.    6:823)    A.    L.   A. 

Greene,  Nathaniel 

Greene,  F.  V.  General  Greene.  (Great 
commanders)   '93  Appleton  $1.60         92 

"Study  of  the  military  operations  of  the 
Revolution  and  Greene's  public  relations.  Valu- 
able to  students  and  interesting  to  general 
reader."      (N.Y.  state  lib.)  A.   L.  A. 

Grenfell,  Wilfred  Thomason 
Adrift  on  an  ice-pan.  il  '09  Houghton  85c 

92 

"Simple  and  modest  recital  of.  author's  ex- 
periences and  emotions  while  drifting  out_  to 
sea  for  a  day  and  a  night  on  a  block  of  'sish,' 
or  crushed  ice.  Biographical  sketch  by  C.  J. 
Blake."      (N.Y.  state  lib.)   A.   L.  A.  sup. 

Grey,  Albert  Henry  George,  4th  earl 

Begbie,  Harold.  Albert,  fourth  Earl 
Grey,  a  last  word,  il  '18  Doran  $1.25   92 

"When  the  late  Lord  Albert  Grey  realized  that 
he  had  but  a  few  weeks  more  to  live,  he  wrote 
to  Mr  Begbie  requesting  that  the  latter  aid  him 
in  puttin  r  forward  a  presentation  of  the  political 
views  which  he  had  held  and  practiced  for  more 
than  thirty  years.  .  .  .  [This  book]  not  only 
presents  the  message  Lord  Grey  desired  to  be 
conveyed  to  the  English  people  but  recreates  for 
us  the  singularly  gentle,  lovable  personality  of 
the  man.  A  great  lover  of  human  kind,  an 
active  exponent  of  genuine  democracy,  he 
wanted  the  idea  of  industrial  democracy  to  pene- 
trate the  national  consciousness.  .  .  .  His  re- 
ligion was  a  deep  and  secret  thing  unhampered 
by  sect  or  creed:.  Loving  England,  he  longed 
for  a  true  imperial  unity  and  worked  to  that 
end.  The  message  is  not  given  by  itself  but  is 
interwoven  thruout  with  anecdotes  of  Lord  Grey's 
life,  glimpses  into  his  personality  and  revelations 
of  his  beliefs  and  attitude  toward  God,  coun- 
try, society  and  man."    Book  rev.  digest 

Griffis,  Joseph  K.   (Tahan) 

Tahan;  out  of  savagery  into  civilization. 

il  '15  Doran  $1.25  92 

"The   simply    told    life   story    of    a   man    who 


according  to  his  own  account,  has  emerged  from 
savagery  to  a  'state  of  broad  culture'  thru 
transition  stages  in  which  he  was  successively 
Indian  warrior,  medicine  man,  outlaw,  scout, 
deserter  under  sentence  of  death,  tramp,  Salva- 
tion army  captain,  evangelist  and  clergyman." 
Cleveland 

Gustavus  II,  Adolphus,  king  of  Sweden 

Fletcher,    C.    R.    L.      Gustavus    Adolphus 

and  the  struggle  of   Protestantism  for 

existence.   (Heroes  of  the  nations).  '90 

Putnam  $1.50  92 

"Shows  the  part  Sweden  played  in  the  Ref- 
ormation and  the  Thirty  years'  war."     A.  L.  A. 

Hale,  Edward  Everett 
A  New  England  boyhood,  and  other  bits 
of  autobiography.  1900  Little  $1.50      92 

"Describes  a  boy's  life  in  Boston  from  1826- 
35  and  at  Harvard  for  four  following  years.  An 
excellent  picture  of  Boston  and  vicinity  at  that 
time."      (N.Y.  state  lib.)   A.  L.  A. 

The  1900  edition  supplements  the  record  with 
papers  entitled  "Sixty  years  of  my  life," 
bringing   the   biography   to    1890 

Hale,  E.  E.,  jr.  Life  and  letters  of  Ed- 
ward  Everett  Hale,  il  2v  '17  Little  $5 

92 

"Selections  from  a  mass  of  letters,  diaries, 
note-books  covering  almost  the  whole  of  Dr 
Hale's  life  (1822-1909).  They  present  him  aa 
he  appeared  to  bis  friends  and  set  forth  his 
many  activities  as  a  boy  at  the  Boston  Latin 
school,  a  student  at  Harvard  university,  as  Uni- 
tarian minister,  chaplain  of  the  United  States 
senate,  journalist  and  philanthropist."  Pitts- 
burgh 

"His  son  has  written  or  rather  we  should 
say  edited,  his  life  with  reverencing  candor — a 
combination  rare  in  biographers."  (Lyman  Ab- 
bott)   Outlook    118:146 

Hale,  Nathan 
Johnston,  H.  P.     Nathan  Hale,  1776;    bi- 
ography and  memorials,  rev  and  enl  ed 
'14  Yale  univ.  $2.50  92 

"A  painstaking  and  spirited  biography  pub- 
lished in  190 1  is  enlarged  in  the  present  edi- 
tion by  the  64  letters  which  make  up  the  Hale 
correspondence,  and  an  appendix  containing 
Hale's  own  diary,  tributes  to  the  hero  in  verse 
and  prose,  brief  descriptions  of  the  Hale 
memorials  and  a  seven  page  bibliography." 
Cleveland 

Author  is  professor  of  history  at  the  College 
of  the  city  of  New  York 

Root,  J.  C.  Nathan  Hale.  (True  stories 
of  great  Americans)  il  '15  Macmillan 
50c  92 

"The  author  sketches  the  events  of  Nathan 
Hale's  brief  life  in  a  half  dozen  chapters.  To 
these  she  adds  chapters  on :  Grief  for  the  young 
patriot;  Tributes  to  Nathan  Hale;  Nathan 
Hale's  friends;  Ancestors  and  descendants  of 
Nathan  Hale's  parents;  Asserted  betrayal  of 
Nathan  Hale;  Contrasts  between  Hale  and 
Andr£.  The  illustrations  that  accompany  the 
text,  are  well  chosen  and  add  to  the  interest 
of  the  book."      Book  rev.   digest 

Hale,  Susan 

Letters  of  Susan  Hale;  ed.  by  Caroline  P. 
Atkinson;  with  an  introd.  by  Edward 
E.  Hale.    '19  Jones  $3.50  92 

"Delightful  letters  by  the  author  of  the 
'Peterkin  papers'  including  experiences  of  travel 
in  Europe,  Asia  and  Africa  as  well  as  pictures 
of  her  home  and  friends  at  Matunuck,  R.I." 
Pratt  quarterly 

"The  introduction  by  her  nephew  gives  the 
main  facts  of  the  biography."     A.   L.  A.   bkl. 


32 


STANDARD   CATALOG 


Hall,  Mrs  Florence  Howe 

Memories    grave    and    gay.      '18     Harper 
$3.50  92 

"Reminiscences  of  the  daughter  of  Julia  Ward 
Howe,  who  besides  being  distinguished  as  an 
author  and  lecturer,  enjoyed  the  acquaintance  of 
Thackeray,  Longfellow,  Kossuth,  Charles  Sum- 
ner, Edwin  Booth,  and  other  international  celeb- 
rities."      Brooklyn 

Hamilton,  Alexander 

Lodge,     H.     C.       Alexander     Hamilton. 
(American  statesmen)   Houghton  $1.35 

92 

"Brings  into  strong  relief  the  salient  features 
of  Hamilton's  character  and  work.  Few  books 
so  well  adapted  to  kindle  an  intelligent  interest 
in  American  history."      A.   L.  A. 

Hancock,  John 

Sears,  Lorenzo.     John  Hancock,  the  pic- 
turesque patriot.  '12  Little  $1.50  92 

"The  only  biography  (1913)  of  the  first 
signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  this 
gives  a  readable,  impartial  and  fairly  complete 
account  of  his  life  and  of  the  events  of  the 
Revolution  in  which  he  took  part."  N.Y.  state 
lib. 

Hancock,  Winfield  Scott 

Walker,  F.  A.     General  Hancock.   (Great 
commanders)   '95  Appleton  $1.60         92 

"Vivid   and   effective."      Nation    60:188 

Hare,  Augustus  John  Cuthbert 

Memorials  of  a  quiet  life.  19th  e!  3v  72 
Allen  vl  and  2,  15s;  v3,  7s  6d  92 

"The  special  office  of  this  work  is  that  it 
leads  us  into  one  of  the  most  refined,  cultured 
and  lovely  of  English  homes.  .  .  .  where  all 
the  amenities  and  dignities  of  a  .  .  .  fastidious 
training  are  lifted  into  the  freedom  and  light 
of  an  atmosphere  of  tender  devotion."  (F.  D. 
Huntington,   in   preface)    Pittsburgh 

First   edition   published   in    1872 

Harris,  Joel  Chandler 

Harris,   J.    C.     Life   and   letters   of    Joel 
Chandler  Harris,  il  '18  Houghton  $3.50 

92 

Bibliography,    P603-10 

"This  popular  account  will  have  special  in- 
terest for  all  friends  of  Uncle  Remus,  as  the 
personality  of  an  interested  and  gifted  man,  and 
a  delightful  father  shines  out  thru  his  daughter's 
affectionate  appreciation  and  thru  the  many 
personal  letters  quoted."     A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

Hart,  Robert 

Bredon,  Juliet.  Sir  Robert  Hart,  the  ro- 
mance of  a  great  career.  '09  Dutton  92 
"The  biography  of  the  greatest  of  the  alien 
advisers  whom  the  Chinese,  like  the  Japanese, 
engaged  to  assist  them  in  bridging  the  chasm 
between  ancient  and  modern  life."  (Nation) 
Pratt  quarterly 

Temporarily   out  of  stock 

Hart,    Virgil    Chittenden 

Hart,    E.    I.     Virgil   C.    Hart:   missionary 
statesman.  '17  Doran  $1.50  92 

"A  son's  personal  record  of  the  work  and  ex- 
periences of  a  great  missionary  who  opened  up 
central  China  to  Christian  influence  and  teach- 
ings. It  is  a  straightforward  narrative  of  an 
unusually  picturesque  career."  Review  of  re- 
views  55:667 

Harte,  Bret 

Merwin,    H.    C.      Life    of    Bret    Harte.    il 
'11   Houghton  $3.50  92 

"Detailed,  authoritative  biography,  dealing 
less  with  Harte's  personality  than  with  his  work 
and  social  and  economic  conditions  under  which 
it  was  produced.  Full  analyses  of  his  style, 
vocabulary,  verse  forms  and  methods  of  work." 
A.  L.  A.  sup. 


Hasanowitz,  Elizabeth 

One  of  them.  '18  Houghton  $2  92 

"A  young  Russian  Jewess'  account  of  her 
unsuccessful  struggles  in  New  York  to  get  on 
an  economic  footing  which  should  afford  her 
more  than  a  bare  living,  and  of  her  experiences 
in  working  to  obtain  better  conditions  in  the 
women's  ready-made  clothing  industry.  The  ac- 
count has  interest  both  as  a  human  and  social 
document,  but  the  stilted  English  and  strained, 
almost  hysterical  emphasis,  produce  an  impres- 
sion of  monotony  which  a  touch  of  humor  would 
go   far   to    relieve."      Cleveland 

Appeared  in  part  in  the  Atlantic  monthly 
"vi2i,  January-April   1918 

Hawkes,  Clarence 

Hitting  the   dark  trail,   il  '15    Holt  $1.20 

92 

"Autobiography  of  Clarence  Hawkes,  lecturer 
and  nature-writer,  who  entirely  lost  his  sight 
at  thirteen.  Of  value  from  the  inspirational 
side  and  as  a  measure  of  the  world  from  the 
point  of  view  of  a  blind  person  who  has  once 
seen  and,  unlike  Helen  Keller,  can  institute 
comparisons  between  the  psychology  of  the  blind 
and  that  of  the  normal  person."     Cleveland 

"As  a  discussion  of  blindness  in  all  its 
phases,  by  a  blind  man,  the  book  is  remark- 
able."     A.   M.   Chase   in   Bookman   42:193 

Illustrations  from  photographs  and  from 
drawings   by   Charles   Copeland 

Hawthorne,  Nathaniel 

Hawthorne,  Julian.  Nathaniel  Haw- 
thorne and  his  wife.  2v  '93  Houghton 
$4.50;   library   ed  $3.50  92 

"Standard  life  by  his  son;  called  by  Richard- 
son the  best  biography  written  in  America." 
(Johnston)  A.  L.  A. 

"So  instinct  with  a  tender  respect  and  un- 
questioning love,  so  full  of  a  frank  boyish  spirit 
of  the  loyalty  that  has  never  contemplated  the 
king  doing  wrong,  that  the  critic  is  constrained 
to  take  his  point  of  view  and  accept  this  bi- 
ography not  as  a  critical  and  complete  life,  but 
as  a  friendly  confidence."  (Nation,  1884)  Pitts- 
burgh 

Woodberry,  G.  E.  Nathaniel  Haw- 
thorne. (American  men  of  letters)  '02 
Houghton  $1.35  92 

"Most  valuable  as  an  appreciative  criticism  of 
his    writings."      (Pittsburgh)    A.    L.   A. 

Hay,  John 
Thayer,  W.  R.     Life  and  letters  of  John 
Hay.  2v  il  '15  Houghton  $6  92 

"Not  a  formal  biography  but  a  well  edited 
collection  of  Hay's  intimate  letters  and  diary 
jottings,  held  together  by  a  slender  thread  of 
'life.'  It  is  based  on  memorial  of  similar  na- 
ture published  privately  by  Mrs  Hay  shortly 
after  her  husband's  death  in  1905,  but  Mr 
Thayer  has  drawn  upon  a  much  larger  store  of 
materials  both  private  and  official,  and  has 
handled  them  thruout  with  taste  and  judgment 
of  a  high  order."     N.Y.  Times 

"The  most  distinctive  feature  of  the  'Life  and 
letters'  is  perhaps,  the  sense  it  gives  of  the  time 
spirit  as  transmitted  thru  the  personality  of  one 
man.  John  Hay's  life  seems  to  epitomize  the 
inward  feeling  of  the  period  thru  which  he 
lived."      North   American    rev.    203:143 

Hearn,   Lafcadio 

Life  and  letters:  ed.  by  Elizabeth  Bis- 
land.  il  2v  '06  Houghton  $6.50  92 

vi,  Introductory  sketch  by  Mrs  Elizabeth 
(Bisland)  Wetmore;  Letters.  v2,  Letters  (con- 
tinued) 

"Hearn  (1850-1904)  was  peculiarly  fitted  by 
temperament  to  become  the  ideal  interpreter  of 
Japan  and  he  has  left  a  series  of  books  unique 
in  our  language.  Mrs  Wetmore,  who  was  his 
intimate  friend  for  twenty  years,  has  succeeded 
in  _  depicting  his  sensitive  and  exotic  nature, 
which    the    letters    themselves    reveal    even    more 


BIOGRAPHY— Individual 


35 


Hearn,  Lafcadio — Continued 

clearly.      The   correspondence   is   of   unusual   in- 
terest."     Pittsburgh 

"  'Probably  the  most  valuable  (letters)  since 
the  publication  of  Fitzgerald's.'  (Nation) 
'Japanese  letters,'  Houghton,  19 10,  $3.25.  are 
selected  from  those  to  Basil  Chamberlain,  W.  B. 
Mason  and  Hearn's  wife,  1890-1904."  A.  L.  A. 
sup. 
Hearn,  S.  K.  (Mrs  Hearn).  Remin- 
iscences of  Lafcadio  Hearn;  tr.  from 
the  Japanese  by  P.  K.  Hisada,  and  F. 
Johnson.  '18  Houghton  $1  92 

"The  sensitive  temperament,  interests  and 
habits  of  home  life  of  Lafcadio  Hearn  are  re- 
vealed in  this  intimate  sketch  by  his  Japanese 
wife."     Pittsburgh 

"The  book  contributes  some  intimate  knowl- 
edge of  Lafcadio  Hearn,  but  its  highest  con; 
tribution  is  to  limpid,  poetic  prose  literature." 
(Nation)    Pratt  quarterly 

Hecker,  Isaac  Thomas 
Sedgwick,   H.  D.     Father  Hecker.    (Bea- 
con biographies)   1900  Small  60c  92 

Bibliography,   PI53-7.    .      .        .         ,    .      „     , 
"Excellent  sketch  of  the  founder  of  the  Paul- 
ist    fathers,    who    went    into    the    Roman    church 
thru    Brook    Farm      and    New      England    trans- 
cendentalism."     (N.Y.   state   lib.)    A.   L.   A. 

Hegermann-Lindencrone,     Lillie      (Green- 
nough)  de 

In  the  courts  of  memory,  1858-1875,  from 
contemporary  letters,   il  '12  Harper  $2 

92 

"Delightfully  spontaneous  letters  home  de- 
scribing with  pleasant  detail  the  author's  social 
and  musical  life  in  Paris,  the  celebrities  she 
met,  among  them  Liszt,  Auber,  Gounod,  Ros- 
sini, Merimee,  Prince  Metternich,  etc.,  and  her 
visits  to  the  court  of  Napoleon  III."  N.Y. 
state  lib. 
Sunny  side  of  diplomatic  life,  1875-1912. 
il  '14  Harper  $2  92 

"Reminiscences  in  the  form  of  letters  written 
to  home  friends  by  the  American  wife  of  a 
Danish  diplomat,  covering  the  period  during 
which  her  husband  represented  his  country  at 
Washington,  Rome,  Stockholm,  Paris  and 
Berlin.  Includes  interesting  intimate  sketches, 
not  only  of  royalty  and  the  distinguished  per- 
sonages of  her  social  world,  but  also  of  great 
musicians  with  whom  she  associated  as  a  fellow 
artist.  Supplements  her  'In  the  courts  of 
memory.'  "      Cleveland 

Heine,  Heinrich 

Sharp,  William.  Life  of  Heinrich  Heine. 
(Great  writers)  '88  Scribner  $1.25       92 

Bibliography,     17    pref.    p. 

Biography  with  a  critical  estimate  and  de- 
scription of  his  writings 

Henry  IV,  king  of  France 

Willert,  P.  F.  Henry  of  Navarre  and  the 
Huguenots  in  France.  (Heroes  of  the 
nations)    '93    Putnam   $1.50  92 

"Fair  and  appreciative  estimate,  founded  on 
the  best  contemporary  sources  of  information." 
Pittsburgh 

Henry,  prince  of  Portugal 

Beazley,  C.  R.  Prince  Henry  the  navi- 
gator. (Heroes  of  the  nations)  '95  Put- 
nam $1.50  92 

"An  account  not  only  of  the  stirring  events 
that  characterized  Prince  Henry's  time,  but  of 
the  centuries  of  preparation  preceding."  (Re- 
view  of   reviews)    A.    L.   A. 

See  in  connection  with  this  Oliveira  Martins' 
"Golden  age  of  Prince  Henry  the  navigator;" 
tr.  by  Abraham  and  Reynolds,  19 14,  Dutton, 
$4-50 


Henry,  O.  (pseud,  of  Sydney  Porter) 
Smith,  C.  A.      O.  Henry  biography,  il  '16 
Doubleday  $2.50  92 

"Sympathetic  biography  of  the  gifted  short- 
story  writer,  a  happy  mean  between  a  bio- 
graphical and  a  critical  study.  When  asked 
once  why  he  did  not  read  more  fiction,  _0. 
Henry  replied,  'It  is  all  tame  as  compared  with 
the  romance  of  my  own  life.'  "     N.Y.  state  lib. 

Henry,   Patrick 

Tyler,  M.  C.  Patrick  Henry.  (American 
statesmen)  Houghton  $1.35  92 

"May  be  fairly  said  to  reconstruct  the  life 
of  Patrick  Henry,  and  to  vindicate  his  memory 
from  the  unappreciative  and  injurious  estimate 
which  has  been  placed  upon  it."  (Nation) 
A.   L.  A. 

Hepburn,  James  Curtis 

Griffis,  W.  E.  Hepburn  of  Japan,  and  his 
wife  and  helpmates,  il  '13  Presbyterian 
bd.  $1.50  92 

"Of  the  four  pioneers  of  the  gospel  and 
Christian  civilization  in  Japan,  Verbeck,  Brown, 
Hepburn,  and  Williams,  this  volume  completes 
the  biography  of  that  one  who  was  second  on 
the  ground  and  possibly  first  in  general  useful- 
ness."    Preface 

"A  glowing  tribute  to  a  man  of  heroic  pur- 
pose and  notable  accomplishment  as  missionary, 
physician,  lexicographer  and  translator  of  the 
Scriptures."  (Adapted  from  Dial)  Pratt  quar- 
terly 

Herbert  of  Cherbury,  Edward  Herbert, 
baron 
Lives  of  Lord  Herbert  of  Cherbury  and 
Thomas  Ellwood;  with  essays  by  W.  D. 
Howells.  (Choice  autobiographies)  '77 
Houghton   $1.15  _   92 

"  'The  autobiography  of  Lord  Herbert  is  of 
a  style  so  charming,  and  of  a  manner  and  mat- 
ter so  singularly  characteristic  of  his  order,  age 
and  nation,  that  one  might  easily  believe  it 
written  by  some  skillful  student  of  the  period. 
...  As  you  read,  you  cannot  help  thinking 
.  .  .  that  Thackeray  himself  could  not  have 
done  it  better  if  he  had  been  minded  to  portray 
a  gentleman  of  the  first  James'  time.  Yet  this 
picture,  so  frank,  so  boldly  colored,  so  full  of 
the  very  life  of  a  young  English  noble,  is  one 
of  the  most  remarkable  instances  of  self-por- 
traiture in  any  language.  .  .  A  rare  sincerity 
marks  the  whole  memoir,  and  gives  it  the  grace 
of  an  antique  simplicity.  .  .  .  Herbert,  not 
only  as  James'  ambassador  to  Louis  XIII,  but 
as  a  soldier  of  fortune  in  the  Low  countries, 
and  a  peaceful  traveler  in  Italy,  saw  everything 
that  was  best  worth  seeing  in  the  Europe  of 
his   day.'       (W.    D.    Howells   in    Introduction) 

The  other  autobiography  included  in  this 
volume  is  that  of  a  sturdy  Quaker,  good  and 
beautiful  with  a  simple  righteousness  that  com- 
forts and  strengthens  the  soul."      Pittsburgh 

Higginson,  Thomas  Wentworth 

Cheerful  yesterdays.  1900  Riverside  ed 
Houghton  $2.25  92 

Contents:  Cambridge  boyhood;  Child  of  the 
college;  Period  of  the  newness;  Rearing  of  a 
reformer;  Fugitive  slave  epoch;  Birth _  of  a 
literature;  Kansas  and  John  Brown;  civij  war; 
Literary  London  twenty  years  ago;  Literary 
Paris  twenty  years  ago;  On  the  outskirts  of 
public    life;    Epilogue 

Reprinted  from  the  Atlantic  monthly,  with 
slight   additions 

Higginson,  Mrs  M.  T.  Thomas  Went- 
worth Higginson;  the  story  of  his  life, 
il  '14   Houghton   $3.50  92 

"Bibliography,    P403-28 

Life  of  the  New  England  preacher,  soldier 
and  reformer   (1823-1911) 

The  volume  has  considerable  charm  and  was 
well  worth   doing,  for  Col.   Higginson's  life  was 


34 


STANDARD   CATALOG 


Higginson,  Thomas  Wentworth — Continued 

a  remarkable  blending  of  literary  productiveness 
and  personal  achievement.  Mrs  Higginson  has 
well  brought  out  its  simplicity,  its  unselfishness 
and  its  never  failing  cheer,  and  recalls  many 
delightful  anecdotes  taken  in  large  part  from 
his  correspondence.  There  is  no  attempt  at  a 
critical  estimate  of  the  man  or  his  work."  (Con- 
densed from    Nation,    19 14)   Pittsburgh 

"Adds  little  new  material  to  the  autobio- 
graphical account  in  'Cheerful  yesterdays'  ex- 
cept in  a  fuller  treatment  of  the  man's  formative 
years."      A.    L.    A.    bkl. 

Hill,    James   Jerome 

Pyle,  J.  G.  Life  of  James  J.  Hill.  2v  il 
'17  Doubleday  $5  92 

"The  biography  of  a  self-made  man,  the 
capitalist  and  railroad  promoter  whose  enter- 
prises opened  up  the  great  Northwest  and 
developed  its  commerce  and  resources,  and  who 
did  much  for  St  Paul  and  Minneapolis  in  the 
fields  of  art  and  education."     Cleveland 

"Without  displaying  many  of  them,_  Mr  Pyle 
has  had  access  to  the  letters  and  diaries  of  Mr 
Hill,  and  has  freely  used  autobiographic  dicta- 
tions. Only  Dr  Oberholtzer's  'Jay  Cooke'  gives 
financial  history  for  the  railroads  with  equal 
detail  and  accuracy."  F.  L.  Paxson  in  Amer. 
hist.    rev. 

Hobson,  Mrs  Elizabeth  Christophers  (Kim- 
ball) 

Recollections  of  a  happy  life.  '16  Put- 
nam $1.25  92 

"Some  chapters  from  a  'happy,  quietly  event- 
ful, characterful  life,'  told  in  an  informal  way. 
The  author  has  entertaining  stories  to  tell  of 
an  early  sailing  trip  around  the  Horn  and  of 
her  later  years  in  New  York,  Washington  and 
Europe.  She  helped  to  establish  the  Bellevue 
Training  school  for  nurses  and  was  interested 
in  Negro  education  and  other  philanthropies." 
A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

"Story  of  the  nun,  Dona  Ignacia,  which 
forms  one  considerable  section  of  this  record, 
Marion  Crawford  made  the  basis  of  one  of  his 
most  successful  novels,  'Casa  Braccio.'  Lord 
Bryce,  who  read  a  part  of  the  'Recollections'  in 
manuscript,  asked  and  received  permission  to 
incorporate  a  chapter  into  his  book  on  South 
America."      North    American    rev.    204:946 

The  book  was  written  in  19 n,  in  her 
eightieth  year 

Holmes,  John 

Letters  of  John  Holmes  to  James  Russell 
Lowell  and  others;  ed.  by  W.  R. 
Thayer,  il  '17  Houghton  $2.50  92 

"Of  this  brother  of  Dr  O.  W.  Holmes,  Emer- 
son wrote:  'Oliver  markets  all  his  goods,  John 
gives  his   to   his    friends.' 

The  letters  abound  in  quaint  humor  and  re- 
veal a  nature  of  originality  and  unstudied 
charm."      Cleveland 

Holmes,  Oliver  Wendell 

Morse,  J.  T.,  jr.  Life  and  letters  of 
Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.  2v  '97  Hough- 
ton $4.50  92 

"Taken  together  the  memoir  and  the  letters 
form  a  complete  and  most  engaging  literary 
portraiture, — one  which  the  reader  finishes  with 
a  gratified  sense  of  having  learned  all  that  one 
needs  to  know,  and  has  a  right  to  know  of  the 
career  and  personality  of  the  kindly  'Autocrat.'  " 
(Dial,     1896)     Pittsburgh 

"Such  letters  as  no  one  else  could  have 
written,  full  of  wit,  humor  and  intimate  revela- 
tions."     (Bookman)   A.  L.  A. 

Holtzclaw,  William  Henry 

Black  man's  burden;  with  an  introd.  by 
B.   T.   Washington,    il   '15    Neale   $1.60 

92 

"The  author,  a  Tuskegee  graduate  has  built 
up,  at  Utica,  Mississippi,  a  school  patterned  after 


that  of  Tuskegee,  and  having  in  1915  over  500 
pupils,  and  thirty  instructors.  The  book  is  an 
account  of  his  work  and  his  life.  Comparable 
in  character  and  interest  with  the  autobiogra- 
phies of  Frederick  Douglass  and  Booker  T. 
Washington."      Pittsburgh 

Hosmer,  James  Kendall 

Last  leaf;  observations  during  75  years, 
of  men  and  events  in  America  and 
Europe.   '12  Putnam  $2  92 

"As  minister  of  religion,  soldier,  author, 
college  professor,  lecturer,  librarian  ...  he  has 
seen  life  in  many  aspects  and  rubbed  elbows 
with  men  of  many  sorts  and  conditions."  (Dial) 
Pratt   quarterly 

"Belongs  in  a  class  with  a  number  of  enjoy- 
able books  of  the  last  decade — books  like  Sen- 
ator Hoar's  'Autobiography'  and  Dr  Andrew  D. 
White's  volume  of  recollections."  Boston  Tran- 
script,   December    18,    19 12 

House,   Edward   Mandell 

Smith,  A.  D.  H.  Real  Colonel  House,  il 
'18    Doran   $1.50  92 

"Life  story  of  the  President's  confidential 
adviser  which  gives  not  only  a  picture  of  his 
own  personality,  but  tells  much  of  President 
Wilson's  character,  politics  and  policies." 
A.   L.  A.   bkl. 

Howe,   Mrs  Julia   (Ward) 

Reminiscences,  1819-1899.  il  '99  Hough- 
ton $3  92 

"Many  of  the  chapters  appeared  in  the  At- 
lantic  monthly,    V82-3,    1898-99. 

As  wife  of  the  distinguished  philanthropist, 
Samuel  Gridley  Howe,  herself  both  philan- 
thropist and  author,  Mrs  Howe  had  rare  op- 
portunities for  knowing  many  of  the  most 
prominent  men  and  women  of  her  time."  Pitts- 
burgh 

Richards,  Mrs  L.  H.  and  Elliott,  Mrs 
M.  H.  Julia  Ward  Howe,  1819-1910.  2v 
il  '16  Houghton  $5  92 

"Mrs  Howe's  three  daughters  have  told  her 
story  thru  her  journals,  letters,  and  writings, 
making  it  almost  autobiographical.  The  facts 
of  her  life  are  all  here,  those  told  in  the 
'Reminiscences'  given  in  greater  detail  and  with 
new  emphasis;  much  of  her  wisdom,  religion  and 
outlook  on  life  is  intimately  revealed  in  her  own 
words."      (A.   L.  A.   bkl.)    Pittsburgh 

"The  literary  work  qualifies  it  in  view  of  the 
fame  of  its  subject,  to  rank  as  a  classic  Amer- 
ican biography."  Springfield  Republican,  April 
23,   1916 

Howells,  William  Dean 

Years  of  my  youth.  '16  Harper  $2  92 

"In  these  reminiscences  written  in  his 
eightieth  year,  Mr  Howells  passes  quickly  from 
the  boyhood  which  he  describes  in  'A  boy's 
town'  to  his  young  manhood  as  a  printer  and 
journalist  in  Ohio,  which  he  describes  in  detail, 
closing  with  his  appointment  to  the  consulate  in 
Venice  in  1861.  'It  is  the  story  of  a  man's 
youth  told  with  charm  from  the  ripe  viewpoint 
of  an  age  that  has  never  lost  touch  with  what 
is  young  and  growing  and  beautiful."  (N.Y. 
Times)    Cleveland 

"As  a  picture  of  Ohio  life  in  the  *4o's  and 
'so's  it  is  both  readable  and  valuable."  N.Y. 
state  lib. 

Same;  illustrated  by  Clifton  Johnson,  Har- 
per $2.50 

Hudson,   Henry 

Janvier,  T.  A.  Henry  Hudson,  il  '09 
Harper  $1  92 

"Brief  statement  of  Hudson's  aims  and 
achievements,  with  a  newly  discovered  partial 
record,  now  first  published,  of  the  trial  and 
punishment  of  the  mutineers  by  whom  he  was 
abandoned  to  his   death."      A.   L.   A.  sup. 

Reproductions    of    old    prints    and    title-pages 


BIOGRAPHY— Individual 


35 


Hudson,  William  Henry 

Far  away  and  long  ago;  a  history  of  my 
early  life.   '18   Dutton   $2.50  92 

"The  romantic  childhood  of  an  English  nat- 
uralist who  was  brought  up  on  the  Argentine 
pampas  in  the  days  of  the  tyrant  Rosas.  The 
grotesque  natives,  the  plant  and  animal  life,  the 
picturesque  squalor  of  Buenos  Aires  in  the 
forties,  and  the  English  family  in  the  midst  of 
such  unusual  surroundings  are  exquisitely  pic- 
tured."    A.   L.  A.  bkl.  ■ 

"One  is  reluctant  to  apply  to  Mr  Hudson  s 
book  those  terms  of  praise  which  are  bestowed 
upon  literary  and  artistic  merit,  though  need- 
less to  say  it  possesses  both.  One  does  not  want 
to  recommend  it  as  a  book  so  much  as  to  greet 
it  as  a  person,  and  not  the  clipped  and  imper- 
fect person  of  ordinary  autobiography,  but  the 
whole  and  complete  person  whom  we  meet 
rarely  enough  in  life  or  in  literature."  (Times 
[London]   lit.  sup.)   St.  Louis 

Hugo,  Victor 

Marzials,  F.  T.  Life  of  Victor  Hugo, 
(Great  writers)  '88  Scribner  $1.25       92 

Bibliography,    apx,   pi-20 

"Clear  and  concise  biography  and  discrim- 
inating  criticism."      Pittsburgh 

Hunt,  Leigh 

Autobiography  of  Leigh  Hunt,  with  rem- 
iniscences of  friends  and  contempora- 
ries; ed.  by  Roger  Ingpen.  2v  '03  Dut- 
ton $7.50  92 

"  'It  is  the  book  of  an  old  man,  ripe,  tender, 
sensitive,  human, — an  old  man  striving,  with  an 
honesty  sometimes  pathetic,  always  convincing 
and  engaging,  to  tell  the  truth,  to  correct  his 
first  impressions,  to  pay  a  tribute  of  love  and 
admiration  to  his  friends,  to  do  justice  to  those 
who  called  themselves  his  enemies.  .  .  .  The 
story  of  his  connection  with  Shelley  and  Keats 
...  is  a  story  which  can  never  fail  of  its 
appeal.  .  .  .  The  book  is  a  human  book;  it 
neither  dogmatizes  over  life  nor  plays  with  it.' 
(Academy,    1903) 

'I  have  just  finished  your  'Autobiography' 
which  has  been  most  pleasantly  occupying  my 
leisure  these  three  days.  ...  I  call  this  an 
excellent  good  book,  by  far  the  best  of  the 
autobiographic  kind  I  remember  to  have  read 
in  the  English  language;  and  indeed  except  it 
be  Boswell's  of  Johnson,  I  do  not  know  where 
we  have  such  a  picture  drawn  of  a  human 
life."      (Thomas    Carlyle)    Pittsburgh 

Hunt,  Mrs  Una  Atherton  (Clarke) 

Una  Mary;  the  inner  life  of  a  child.  '14 
Scribner  $1.25  92 

Appeared  in  part  in  Scribner's  magazine,  V56, 
August   to    October,    19 14 

"This  is  the  true  story  of  the  inner  life  of 
my  childhood.  .  .  .  My  one  object  in  writing 
has  been  the  hope  that  some  of  my  readers 
might  say,  'I  remember  I  felt  so  too,'  the  hope 
that  they  might  become  vividly  conscious  of 
their  own  half  forgotten  points  of  view  as  chil- 
dren, with  their  tragedies,  bewilderments,  and 
joys."      Preface 

Huss,  John 

Schaff,  D.  S.  John  Huss,  his  life,  teach- 
ings and  death,  after  five  hundred 
years,  il  '15  Scribner  $2.50  92 

"A  fairminded  and  readable  life  of  the  great 
reformer,  making  no  pretensions  to  original  re- 
search, but  valuable  to  scholars  for  its  careful 
study  of  available  sources,  its  summary  of  re- 
cent views,  and  its  references  to  the  best  orig- 
inal material.  Preferable  for  the  general  reader, 
to  Lutzow's  standard  life  of  Huss,  which  "is 
chiefly  'significant  as  the  work  of  a  com- 
patriot and  as  an  expression  of  national  senti- 
ment.' "    (A.  L.  A.  bkl.)  Cleveland 


Huxley,  Thomas  Henry 

Davis,  J.  R.  A.  Thomas  H.  Huxley. 
(English  men  of  science)  '07  Dutton  $1 

92 

"Excellent  biography,  recommended  for  li- 
braries which  cannot  afford  the  'Life  and  letters 
of  Thomas  Henry  Huxley,'  by  his  son,  on  which 
it  is  based."  A.  L.  A.  sup. 
Huxley,  Leonard.  Life  and  letters  of 
Thomas  Henry  Huxley.  2v  1900  Apple- 
ton  $5.50  .92 

List  of  essays,  books  and  scientific  memoirs, 
2:480-98 

"Mainly  letters.  No  estimate  of  value  of 
work,  but  inspiring  revelation  of  moral  force, 
tenderness  and  devotion  to  truth.  A  biography 
that  brings  the  man  before  us,  robust  and  life- 
like on  every  page."      (John  Fiske)   A.  L.  A. 

Ibsen,  Henrik 

Gosse,  E.  W.  Ibsen.  (Literary  lives)  '08 
Scribner   $1.25  92 

"Temperate  but  appreciative  study  of  Ibsen's 
peculiar  genius,  the  influences  molding  it  and  its 
significance  in  the  development  of  Norwegian 
literature  and  culture."  (N.Y.  state  lib.) 
A.  L.  A.  sup. 
Jaeger,  H.  B.  Henrik  Ibsen;  a  critical 
biography,  from  the  Norwegian  by 
W.  M.  Payne;  2d  ed  with  supplementary 
chapter  by  the  translator.  '01  McClurg 
$1.50  .     92 

"Jaeger  has  taken  high  rank  in  Scandinavia 
as  a  critic  and  man  of  letters  and  his  biography 
has  become  the  recognized  authoritative  life  of 
Ibsen.  .  .  .  Was  written  with  Ibsen's  sanc- 
tion and  partial  collaboration."  (Nation,  189 1) 
Pittsburgh 

Irvine,  Mrs  Anna 

Irvine,  A.  F.  My  lady  of  the  chimney 
corner.  '13  Century  $1.20  92 

"Beautiful  tribute  to  the  author's  mother,  the 
wife  of  a  poor  Irish  peasant  in  Antrim,  Ireland. 
Her  intellectual  and  spiritual  superiority  to  her 
environment  and  her  creed  'love  is  enough'  are 
lovingly  and  faithfully  sketched  by  her  son." 
N.Y.   state  lib. 

Supplements  the  autobiographic  volume  "From 
the  bottom  up."  Several  of  the  sketches  ap- 
peared in  McClure's  magazine 

Irving,  Washington 

Letters  to  Henry  Brevoort;  ed.  with  an 
introd.  by  G.  S.  Hellman.  '18  Putnam 
$3.50     •  92 

"Intimate  personal  letters,  full  of  references 
to  friends  and  relatives,  which  help  to  a  closer 
view  of  the  man  and  add  to  the  regard  and 
respect  which  we  already  feel  for  him." 
(Adapted  from  Dial)    Pratt  quarterly 

Boynton,  H.  W.  Washington  Irving. 
(Riverside  biographical  ser.)  '01 
Houghton  75c;  school  ed  60c  92 

Warner,  C.  D.  Washington  Irving. 
(American  men  of  letters)  '81  Hough- 
ton $1.35  92 

Contains  discriminating  characterization  of 
his  works 

Isabella  I,  queen  of  Castile  and  Aragon 
Plunket,  I.  L.     Isabel  of  Castile  and  the 
making   of   the    Spanish    nation,    1451- 
1504.     (Heroes  of  the  nations)   '15  Put- 
nam $1.90  .    92 

"The  book  opens  with  a  chapter  on  Castile  in 
the  fifteenth  century,  and  two  chapters  are  de- 
voted to  the  reign  of  Henry  IV  before  the  story 
of  Isabel  as  queen  is  taken  up.  There  is  a 
chapter  on  Castilian  literature.  An  appendix 
lists  principal  authorities  for  the  life  and  times 
of  Isabel  of  Castile.  There  are  illustrations,  a 
map  and  an  index."    Book  rev.  digest 


36 


STANDARD    CATALOG 


Jackson,  Andrew 

Sumner,  W.  G.  Andrew  Jackson  as  a 
public  man.  (American  statesmen)  '82 
Houghton  $1.35  92 

"Books    referred   to    P387-92 

Able,  critical  treatment  of  political  and  finan- 
cial history,    1824-40."      A.   L.   A. 

See  also  J.  S.  Bassett's  "Life  of  Andrew 
Jackson,"  new  edition,   19 16,  Macmillan,  $2.50 

Jackson,     Thomas       Jonathan     (Stonewall 
Jackson) 

Parton,  James.  General  Jackson.  (Great 
commanders)  '93  Appleton  $1.60  92 

"Professedly  deals  with  his  military  life  as 
its  principal  topic  but  outline  of  his  political 
career   is   distinct."      (Nation   56:427)    A.    L.   A. 

White,  H.  A.  Stonewall  Jackson.  (Amer- 
ican crisis  biographies)  il  '09  Jacobs 
$1.50  .    92 

"An  excellent  biography,  based  on  original 
sources,  earlier  lives  and  the  official  records. 
Will  answer  the  average  library  need  better 
than  the  'Life  and  letters'  by  Mrs  Jackson  and 
is  more  valuable  on  the  military  side."  A.  L.  A. 
sup. 

James,  Henry 

Middle  years.  '17  Scribner  $1.25  92 

"The  third  volume  of  autobiographical  rem- 
iniscences following  'A  small  boy  and  others,' 
1913,  and  'Notes  of  a  son  and  brother,'  1914; 
only  an  unrevised  fragment,  but  revealing 
something  of  the  author's  point  of  view_  at 
twenty-five,  and  his  sensations  and  impressions 
in   literary  London  of  the  '70's."     Cleveland 

"Contains  delightful  recollections  of  his 
meeting  with  Tennyson,  George  Eliot  and 
Lowell."     A.   L.  A.  bkl. 

Notes  of  a  son  and  brother,  il  '14  Scrib- 
ner $2.50  92 

"Continues  the  theme  of  'A  small  boy  and 
others.'  There  are  fuller  memorials  of  William 
James,  as  well  as  portraits  of  his  father  and  his 
younger  brothers.  Gives  pictures  of  their  life 
in  Geneva,  Newport  and  Cambridge,  and  in- 
cidental glimpses  of  notable  people — La  Farge, 
Hunt,  Norton,  Childs,  Emerson  and  others. 
Written  in  the  characteristic  manner  of  the 
earlier  volume  and  illustrated  from  drawings 
made  by  William  James  in  the  early  part  of  his 
career."       Pittsburgh 

Many  interesting  letters  of  William  James 
written   during  the   Civil   war   are  included." 

A  small  boy  and  others,  il  '13  Scribner 
$2.50  92 

"Starting  avowedly  with  the  purpose  of  plac- 
ing together  some  particulars  of  the  early  life 
of  William  James,  the  writer  soon  found  his 
own  boyish  figure  so  unavoidably  in  the  fore- 
ground that  he  gave  up  the  attempt  to  sketch 
his  brother's  life  and  confines  himself  chiefly 
to  the  memories  and  impressions  of  his  own 
boyhood  viewed  thru  an  intervening  medium  of 
fifty  years  and  more.  The  most  vital  part  of 
the  world  he  reconstructs  is  a  New  York  now 
vanished.  Later  the  background  is  changed  to 
London  and  then  to  France,  which  he  sees  with 
the  glamor  of  childhood.  The  book  is  written 
in  his  best  and  most  characteristic  manner." 
Pittsburgh 

Jaures,   Jean 

Pease,  Margaret.  Jean  Jaures,  socialist 
and  humanitarian.  '17  Huebsch  $1       92 

"Written  to  acquaint  English  readers  with 
the  _  socialist,  editor,  author  and  orator  and 
parliamentary  leader  whom  J.  Ramsay  Mac- 
donald  in  his  introduction,  calls  the  'greatest 
democratic  personal  force  in  Europe,^-even  in 
the  world,'  and  who  after  having  spent  the  last 
days  of  his  life  in  a  vain  effort  to  avert  the 
war,  was  assassinated  on  July  31,  1914."  Book 
rev.    digest 

"Gives  a  brief  resume1  of  his  life  and  career, 


his  relation  to  the  Dreyfus  case,  his  socialist 
methods,  a  short  account  of  his  book  'L'arm6e 
nouvelle,'  and  his  ideas  on  international  peace." 
A.    L.   A.   bkl. 

Jay,  John 

Pellew,  George.  John  Jay.  (American 
statesmen)    '90   Houghton  $1.35  92 

"Abounds  in  excerpts  from  Jay's  correspon- 
dence and  gives  unusually  clear  picture  of 
revolutionary  period  and  two  succeeding  dec- 
ades."    A.    L.   A. 

Jeanne  d'Arc.  See  Joan  of  Arc 

Jefferies,  Richard 

Story  of  my  heart;  my  autobiography. 
'98   Longmans   $1.25    '  92 

"English  writer  (1848-87),  best  known  for 
his   descriptions   of   nature. 

'A  writer  of  a  perfectly  original  type,  and 
at  the  same  time  intensely  English  ...  he  is 
unparalleled,  unless  by  Shelley,  for  the  eloquent 
expression  of  the  mere  rapture  of  living,  of  the 
joy  of  existence  in  fresh  air  and  clear  light 
amid  lovely  landscape.  .  .  .  'The  story  of 
my  heart'  .  .  .  idealizes  the  feelings  and  yearn- 
ings of  his  youth;  it  is  hardly  what  the  lad 
really  thought,  but  embodies  all  he  was  to 
think  when  he  should  have  intellectually  come 
to  man's  estate.  The  one  fixed  point  in  it  is  its 
intense  pantheism.'  "  (Dictionary  of  national 
biography)    Pittsburgh 

Jefferson,  Thomas 

Autobiography  of  Thomas  Jefferson, 
1743-1790,  together  with  a  summary  of 
the  chief  events  in  Jefferson's  life,  il 
new  ed   '14  Putnam  $1.50  92 

"An  autobiography  of  Jefferson  which  was 
begun  in  1821,  during  Jefferson's  seventy- 
seventh  year,  and  which  is  brought  down  only 
to  1790,  leaving  out  the  period  from  1790-1826. 
The  value  of  the  sketch  lies  mainly  in  the  ac- 
tivities leading  up  to  the  Revolution  in  which 
Jefferson's  leadership  was  important."  Book 
rev.  digest 

Merwin,  H.  C.  Thomas  Jefferson.  (Riv- 
erside biographical  ser.)  '01  Houghton 
75c;  school  ed  60c  92 

Morse,  J.  T,  jr.  Thomas  Jefferson. 
(American  statesmen)  '83  Houghton 
$1.35  92 

"Based  on  Randall's  'Life'  and  Jefferson's 
'Works.'  Over  two  thirds  of  the  book  is  de- 
voted to  Jefferson's  official  career  after  1790. 
his  relations  to  Washington,  Hamilton,  Ran- 
dolph, Burr,  to  the  Louisiana  purchase,  and  to 
the  embargo,  receiving  particular  attention." 
A.   L.  A. 

Muzzey,  D.  S.  Thomas  Jefferson.  (Fig- 
ures from  American  history)  '18  Scrib- 
ner $1.50  92 

"The  author  is  associate  professor  of  history 
at   Columbia   university,   New  York. 

'Attempts  no  new  interpretation  of  the  man  or 
his  age,  and  gives  a  thoroly  orthodox  account  of 
the  partisan  cleavage  which  split  the  country  at 
the  end  of  the  eighteenth  century.'  "  (Nation) 
St.  Louis 

Jennings,  Alphonso  J. 

Beating  back,   il  '14  Appleton  $1.75       92 

"The  frank,  unexaggerated  personal  narra- 
tive  of  a  highwayman  and  train-robber  who  was 
sentenced  for  life  to  the  Federal  penitentiary 
and  pardoned,  and  who  pluckily  returned  to  the 
scene  of  his  crimes  to  'beat  his  way  back'  to 
respected  citizenship  and  success  in  law  and 
politics."      Cleveland 

Appeared  in  the   Saturday  evening  post 
Edited  with   an   introductory  chapter  by  Will 
Irwin 


BIOGRAPHY— Individual 


37 


Jewett,  Sarah  Orne 

Letters;  ed.  by  Annie  Fields,  il  '11 
Houghton  $1.75  92 

"Simple  and  informal  letters  to  friends,  con- 
taining much  interesting  comment  on  the  liter- 
ature and  writers  of  the  -past  thirty  years,  and 
many  charming  descriptions  of  persons  and 
places."      A.   L.   A.   sup. 

Joan  of  Arc 

Lang,  Andrew.  Maid  of  France;  being 
the  story  of  the  life  and  death  of 
Jeanne  d'Arc.  new  ed  il  '13  Longmans 
$2.25  92 

"Exhaustive,  scholarly  biography,  the  most 
complete    and    critical    in    English."      A.    L.    A. 

sup-  ...  , 

"Mr  Lang's  book  is  not  written  in  the  sooth- 
ing spirit  of  leisurely  research.  It  has  a 
vivacity  inspired  by  the  two  master  passions  of 
literature,  love  of  the  subject  as  a  vital  issue, 
and  a  strong  objection,  both  temperamental  and 
reasoned,  to  the  author  who  has  most  lately 
treated  it  (Anatole  France)  .  .  .  Mr  Lang's 
own  conception  of  Jeanne  is  very  simple  and 
uncompromising:  she  was  gifted  with  'genius 
which  should  be  the  marvel  of  the  world  while 
the  world  stands';  she  was  not  only  brave, 
saintly  and  a  natural  leader  of  men,  but  of  a 
high  intelligence.  ...  He  will  have  nothing 
to  do  with  the  theory  of  clerical  inspiration;  he 
holds  that  .  .  .  she  was  as  far  as  possible  from 
the  ordinary  type  of  the  mystic  or  hysteric." 
(Nation,    1909)    Pittsburgh 

France's  "Joan  of  Arc,"  tr.  by  Winifred 
Stevens,   was  published   in    1909   by  Lane,   2  V   $8 

Lowell,  F.  C.  Joan  of  Arc.  '96  Hough- 
ton $2.25  92 

"  'Distinctly  the  best  thing  in  the  English 
language  on  the  life  and  career  of  the  Maid 
of  Orleans.'     (H.  M.  Stephens) 

'Based    on    the    latest     French     authorities.'  " 

(N.Y.  state  lib.) 

Oliphant,     Mrs    M.    W.        Jeanne    d'Arc. 

(Heroes    of    the    nations)     '96    Putnam 

$1.50  92 

"From   the  standpoint  of  the  enthusiastic   ad- 
mirer;   not    so    scholarly   as    the    life   by    Lowell 
but    more   interesting   to   most   readers."      (N.Y. 
state  lib.)   A.  L.  A. 
Joffre,  Joseph  Jacques  Cesaire 

Kahn,  Alexander.  Life  of  General  Joffre, 
cooper's  son  who  became  commander- 
in-chief,  il  '15  Stokes  50c  92 

"A  sketch  of  the  main  facts  of  his  life  read- 
ably written  and  discriminating  in  praise. 
Slight,  but  of  timely  interest  as  the  only 
American  biography."     A.   L.   A.  bkl. 

Johnson,  Samuel 

Arblay,  Mme  Frances  (Burney)  d'.  Dr 
Johnson  and  Fanny  Burney.  il  '11  Mof- 
fat $2.25  92 
"A  collection  of  all  the  passages  referring  to 
Dr  Johnson  in  Fanny  Burney's  diaries  and  _  in 
her  forgotten  memoir  of  her  father.  They  give 
a  vivid  and  interesting  picture  of  the  great 
lexicographer."      A.   L.  A.,   bkl. 

Bailey,  J.  C.  Dr  Johnson  and  his  circle. 
(Home  univ.  lib.  of  modern  knowl- 
edge) '13  Holt  60c  92 

"Bibliography,   P253-4. 

Gives  in  a  brief  space  a  sympathetic  and 
just  view  of  Johnson's  character  and  work." 
Pittsburgh 

Boswell,  James.  Life  of  Samuel  John- 
son, LL.  D.  3v  '12  Macmillan  $6  92 

First  published  in    1791 

This  edition  is  reprinted  from  that  prepared 
by  Mr  Mowbray  Morris  for  Macmillan's 
Globe   series   in    1893 

"  'One  of  the  best  books  in  the  world.  Many 
of   the   greatest   men   that   have   ever   lived   have 


written    biography;     Boswell    was    one    of      the 
smallest  men  that  ever  lived,  and  he  has  beaten 
them    all.'       (T.    B.    Macaulay) 

"The  most  famous  biography  in  the  English 
language.  It  is  an  intimate  and  minute  de- 
lineation of  the  great  lexicographer's  life,  char- 
acter and  person,  enlivened  with  small  talk, 
gossip  and  bits  of  familiar  correspondence.  It 
is  also  an  admirable  portrayal  of  the  society  of 
which  Johnson  was  the  outstanding  figure." 
Pratt  alcove 

— Same;  ed.  by  Arnold  Glover  of  the 
Inner  Temple,  with  an  introd.  by  Aus- 
tin Dobson,  about  a  hundred  illustra- 
tion by  Herbert  Railton,  and  many 
portraits.  3v  '01  Dutton  $12  92 

— Same;  including  Boswell's  Journal  of  a 
tour  to  the  Hebrides,  and  Johnson's 
diary  of  A  journey  into  North  Wales; 
ed  by  G.  B.  Hill.  6v  '91  Harper  $12      92 

Bibliography,    v6,    pref.    P7-19 

Contents:    vi-4,    Life;    vs,    Tour    to    the    He- 
brides,   1773;   Journey   into    North   Wales,    1774; 
v6,   Addenda,   Index,   Dicta  philosophi;   etc. 
— Same.  (Everyman's  lib.)  2v  '06  Dutton 
$1.40;  lib.  binding  $1.80  92 

"The  present  text  follows  that  of  Malone's 
sixth    edition."      Introd. 

— Same.   (Temple  classics)   6v  Dutton  $3 

92 

The  edition  edited  by  Mowbray  Morris,  pub- 
lished by  Crowell  in  2v  is  also  scholarly  and  is 
compact  and  inexpensive.  Less  formidable  in 
appearance,  too,  for  inexperienced  readers." 
A.   L.   A. 

Abridged  editions  are  published  by  Heath, 
48c;  Houghton,  Riverside  literature  series,  55c; 
Macmillan,  Pocket  classics,  28c;  Scribner, 
Modern    student's    library,    75c 

Stephen,  Sir  Leslie.  Samuel  Johnson. 
(English  men  of  letters)  78  Harper 
75c;   Macmillan  60c  92 

"Brief  but  excellent  study  of  Johnson's 
career  with  much  acute  criticism  founded  on  a 
clear  insight  into  Johnson's  character  and  much 
knowledge  of  his  times."      Pittsburgh 

Johnson,  Tom  Loftin 

My  story;  ed.  by  E.  J.  Hauser.  il  '11 
Huebsch  $2  92 

"This  vivid,  informal  record  of  boyhood,  in- 
ventions, business  success,  conversion  to  the 
single  tax  theory,  fight  against  privilege,  work 
in  Congress  and  as  mayor  of  Cleveland,  190 1-9, 
offers  a  convincing  case  for  its  author's  often- 
questioned  sincerity  and  personal  disinterested- 
ness. Portraits  and  other  halftones."  N.Y. 
state  lib. 

Jones,  John   Paul 

Brady,  C.  T.  Commodore  Paul  Jones. 
(Great  commanders)  1900  Appleton 
$1.60  92 

"Covers  satisfactorily  the  main  events  of 
Jones'  public  career.  It  is  written  from  the 
viewpoint  of  an  ardent  admirer."  (Dial,  1900) 
N.Y.    state    lib. 

De  Koven,  Mrs  A.  F.  Life  and  letters 
of  John  Paul  Jones.  2v  il  maps  '13 
Scribner  $5  92 

"Fullest  and  most  authoritative  life  so  far 
published,  founded  on  wide  research  and  some 
hitherto  unused  material.  Both  valuable  and 
interesting,  tho  overpartial  and  making  some 
deductions  that  are  open  to  criticism.  The 
twenty-two  illustrations  include  five  portraits 
of  Jones  and  two  maps.  Bibliography  and  in- 
dex."     N.Y.   state   lib. 

Sources   of   information,    V2,    P485-90 

Hapgood,  Hutchins.  Paul  Jones.  (Riv- 
erside biog.  ser.)  '01  Houghton  75c; 
school  ed  60c  92 


38 


STANDARD    CATALOG 


Josephine,  empress  consort  of  Napoleon  I 
Imbert  de  Saint-Amand,  A.   L.     Citizen- 
ess  Bonaparte.  '94  Scribner  $1.50        92 

"Sketches  life  of  Josephine  from  her  mar- 
riage with  Napoleon  to  his  elevation  to  the  con- 
sulship."     Pittsburgh 

Imbert  de  Saint-Amand,  A.  L.  Court  of 
the  Empress  Josephine.  '94  Scribner 
$1.50  92 

"Comprises  most  brilliant  period  of  Jose- 
phine's life;  from  the  beginning  of  the  empire 
in   1804  to   1807."      Pittsburgh 

Imbert  de  Saint-Amand,  A.  L.  Wife  of 
the  first  consul.  '94  Scribner  $1.50      92 

"Series  of  brilliant  pictures  of  court  of 
Napoleon  and  Josephine  during  the  consulate." 
Pittsburgh 

Meneval,  N.  J.  C.  Empress  Josephine; 
tr.  from  the  French  by  D.  D.  Fraser.  il 
'12  Lippincott  $2.50  92 

"Attempts  to  correct  by  means  of  letters  and 
other  documents  the  impression  of  Josephine's 
shallowness   and   frivolity."      Pratt   quarterly 

Judson,  Mrs  Anna  (Hasseltine) 

Hubbard,  E.  D.  Ann  of  Ava.  il  '13  Mis- 
sionary educ.  movement  60;  pa  40c      92 

"Gives  in  story  form  a  sympathetic  account 
of  the  life  of  Ann  Hasseltine  Judson,  courageous 
young  wife  of  Adoniram  Judson,  the  first  Amer- 
ican missionary  to  Burma.  Attractively  printed 
and  bound  with  twelve  illustrations  from  por- 
traits and  photographs  and  as  many  quaint  pen 
and  ink  sketches."      N.Y.  state  lib. 

Keats,  John 

Colvin,  Sir  Sidney.  John  Keats,  il  '17 
Scribner  $4.50  92 

"As  delightful  and  readable  as  it  is  au- 
thoritative and  final.  Reconstructs  Keat's  en- 
vironment and  traces  the  influences  of  books 
and  people  in  his  work.  The  standard  biogra- 
phy for  both  general  reader  and  special  student. 
Thirteen  illustrations.  Full  index."  N.Y.  state 
lib. 

"Presents  for  the  first  time  in  full  detail  the 
history  of  Keat's  life  and  poetical  activity,  dis- 
cusses with  a  fullness  not  hitherto  attempted 
his  relations  both  to  his  Elizabethian  masters 
and  some  of  his  Victorian  followers  and  relates 
the  slow  growth  of  his  fame  after  his  death." 
(Adapted  from  Times  [London])  Pratt  quar- 
terly 

Some  material  from  Colvin's  smaller  book 
on    Keat's    has   been    incorporated    in    this 

— Keats.  (English  men  of  letters)  '87 
Macmillan  60c  92 

Authorities,    pref.    P7-9 

Keeling,  Frederic 

Letters  and  recollections;  with  an  introd. 
by  H.  G.  Wells.   '18  Macmillan  $4        92 

"This  stands  apart  as  the  most  telling  and 
•  convincing  account  of  the  way  in  which  the  war 
has  affected  the  best  type  of  educated  young 
Englishman.  The  preface  by  Mr  Wells  is  one 
of  his  best  contributions  to  the  psychology  of 
the  war."     Survey  41:939 

"Mr  Keeling,  who  was  well  known  when  an 
undergraduate  at  Cambridge  as  one  of  the  lead- 
ing spirits  of  the  C.  U.  Fabian  society,  threw 
himself  wholeheartedly  into  social  work,  first  at 
Walworth  and  later  as  manager  of  the  Leeds 
labor  exchange.  On  the  outbreak  of  the  war  he 
enlisted,  and  after  several  times  refusing  a  com- 
mission died  'gallantly  and  brilliantly  bombing' 
in  one  of  the  Somme  battles  of  August  1916. 
These  letters  cover  the  whole  period  of  his  life 
from  Cambridge  to  the  end."  Times  [London] 
lit.    sup. 

Keller,  Helen 

Story  of  my  life;  with  letters  (1887-1901) 
and    a    supplementary    account    of    her 


education,  including  passages  from  the 
reports  and  letters  of  her  teacher, 
A.    M.    Sullivan.      '03    Doubleday   $1.50 

92 

Published  by  Houghton  at  44c  in  the  River- 
side   literature    series 

"The  book  is  indeed  unique.  The  story  it- 
self and  the  years  of  effort  which  have  made  its 
telling  possible,  the  personality  which  it  re- 
veals, and  the  creation  of  that  personality, — 
these  are  things  which  seem  little  short  of 
miraculous.  The  narrative  of  a  young  woman 
who  has  been  deaf  and  blind  from  infancy  is 
written  in  a  style  which  is  not  only  idiomatic, 
but  individual  and  rhythmical.  As  one  reads, 
one  forgets  to  make  allowances  for  limitations 
which  are  apt  to  slip  out  of  sight,  until  a 
chance  phrase  recalls  one  with  a  start  to  the 
realization  that  the  mind  which  deals  so  freely 
and  normally  with  the  ordinary  factors  of  hu- 
man life  dwells  forever  in  silence  and  the  dark." 
(Condensed  from  Atlantic  monthly,  1903)  Pitts- 
burgh 

Kelvin,  William  Thomson,  1st  baron 

Gray,  Andrew.  Lord  Kelvin;  an  account 
of  his  scientific  life  and  work.  (English 
men  of  science)  il   '08  Dutton  $1  92 

"Account  of  Sir  William  Thomson's  scientific 
achievements,  with  brief  sketch  of  personality,  ■ 
by  his  former  pupil  and  successor  in  the  chair 
of  natural  philosophy  at  Glasgow  university. 
Chiefly  interesting  to  students  of  physics." 
(N.Y.  state  lib.)   A.   L.  A.  sup. 

Key,  Ellen 

Nystrom-Hamilton,  Mrs  Louise.  Ellen 
Key;  her  life  and  her  work;  authorized 
translation  from  the  Swedish  by  A.  E. 
B.( Fries,  il    '13  Putnam  $1.50    "  92 

"An  estimate  and  appreciation  (and  prac- 
tically a  defense)  of  the  life,  teachings,  and  in- 
fluence of  the  Swedish  educator  and  feminist. 
By  the  wife  of  the  head  of  the  People's  Insti- 
tute in  Stockholm  where  Ellen  Key  lectured 
for   twenty  years."      Cleveland 

Kimball,  James  Peleg 
Kimball,    Mrs    M.    B.      Soldier-doctor    of 
our  army,     il  '17  Houghton  $1.50        92 

"A  personal  biography  telling  of  the  varied 
experiences  of  an  army  surgeon.  Doctor  Kim- 
ball saw  service  on  the  western  frontier  and  in 
the  Spanish-American  war,  and  the  descrip- 
tions of  life  in  a  garrison  in  the  Far  West  give 
many  interesting  details  not  to  be  obtained  in 
history."      A.   L.  A.   bkl. 

Kitchener,  Horatio  Herbert  Kitchener,  earl 
Davray,  H.  D.  Lord  Kitchener,  his  work 
and  his  prestige.  '17  Unwin  2s  6d  92 
"A  tribute  to  Kitchener  by  a  Frenchman  who 
analyzes  his  prestige  as  a  popular  hero  and 
balances  the  qualities  which  made  possible  his 
remarkable  achievements  against  those  which 
were  conspicuously  absent.  H.  G.  Groser's 
'Lord  Kitchener'  contains  more  biographical 
facts  of  his  earlier  career;  Harold  Begbie's 
'Kitchener,  organizer  of  victory,'  is  more  popu- 
lar, but  like  this  only  a  sketch."     Cleveland 

The  Gresham  publishing  company,  London, 
issued  in  1916,  at  25s  6d,  a  "Life  of  Kitchener"  to 
19 16,   in   three   volumes 

Wheeler,  H.  F.  B.  Boys'  life  of  Lord 
Kitchener,    il    '16   Crowell   $2  92 

"Altho  nominally  for  boys,  this  is  a  complete 
biography  of  Lord  Kitchener,  giving  very  fully 
the  details  of  his  military  career."  Book  rev. 
digest 

"A  popular  biography  considerably  more  de- 
tailed than  any  that  has  yet  [1917]  appeared, 
and  written  in  a  clear,  readable  and  intelligent 
way;  fully  appreciative  of  Kitchener's  great- 
ness, unmarred  by  any  fulsome  eulogy."  Times 
[London]    lit.    sup, 


BIOGRAPHY— Individual 


39 


Knox,  John 

Cowan,  Henry.  John  Knox,  the  hero  of 
the  Scottish  reformation.  (Heroes  of 
the    reformation)    il    '05    Putnam   $1.50 

92 
"The    author    is    an    advocate,    but    fair,     dig- 
nified  and  moderate   in   his   advocacy   of   Knox's 
course  as   a   Puritan  leader."      (Dial)    A.   L.  A. 
sup. 

Krasinska,  Franchise,  countess,    afterward 
duchess  of  Courland 
Journal;  tr.  from  the  Polish  by  Kasimer 
Dziekonska.  9th  ed    '96  McClurg  $1.25 

92 

"Gives  with  charming  naivete,  a  picturesque 
account  of  high  life  in  Poland  at  the  middle  of 
the  last  (i8th)  century — a  life  still  pervaded  by 
feudal  traditions  and  customs.  .  .  .  The 
countess  writes  with  all  the  vivacity  of  a  girl 
who  does  not  suspect  that  the  glamour  will 
pass,  but  withal  she  has  very  keen  eyes,  that 
see  just  those  details  which  posterity  is  most 
interested  in  and  rarely  finds  in  formal  his- 
tories."     (Nation,    1895)    Pittsburgh 

Kropotkin,  Petr  Aleksieevich,  prince 

Memoirs  of  a  revolutionist.  '99  Hough- 
ton $2.25  .  92 

"Kropotkin's  story  is  a  singularly  rich,  diver- 
sified, and  romantic  one,  and  it  is  attractively 
told.  Nothing  more  interesting  in  its  way  has 
ever  been  written  than  the  chapters  relating  his 
prison  life  and  escape.  The  book  abounds  in 
instructive  pictures  of  Russian  life  and  char- 
acter, done  with  unconscious  art."  (Dial,  1900) 
Pittsburgh 

Published  in  Atlantic  monthly,  September 
1898  to  September  1899,  under  title  "The  auto- 
biography of  a  revolutionist" 

Lacombe,  Albert 

Hughes,  Katharine.  Father  Lacombe, 
the  blackrobed  voyageur.  il  '11  Moffat 
$2  92 

"A  picturesque  account  of  Canada  in  the  last 
half  of  the  nineteenth  century,  as  well  as  an 
enthusiastic  portrayal  of  a  lovable  character,  a 
French  Canadian  priest  missionary  to  the  In- 
dians  since    1849."      N.Y.   state  lib. 

La  Follette,  Robert  Marion 

La  Follette's  autobiography;  a  personal 
narrative  of  political  experiences,  il 
'13   La   Follette   co.  $1.50  92 

"Largely  devoted  to  his  early  struggles  for 
reform  both  in  Wisconsin  and  Washington  and 
his  later  connection  with  the  Progressive  move- 
ment. Gives  a  full  account  of  his  break  with 
Theodore   Roosevelt."      A.    L.   A.   bkl. 

"One  can  trace  here  better  than  anywhere 
else  the  rise  of  the  spirit  of  progressiveness  in 
the  Senate.  .  .  .  The  earlier  chapters  .  .  . 
contain  the  account  of  the  struggle  in  Wisconsin 
which  in  the  end  placed  that  state  in  the  fore- 
front of  railway  and  other  industrial  regula- 
tion by  government."      (Nation)   Pratt  quarterly 

Lamb,  Charles 

Letters.     2v   '89  Macmillan  $3.50  92 

"As  for  Lamb,  those  who  love  him  at  all, 
love  him  so  well  that  it  matters  little  which  of 
his  letters  they  read,  or  how  often  they  have 
read  them  before.  Only  it  is  best  to  select  those 
written  in  the  meridian  of  his  life.  The  earlier 
ones  are  too  painful,  the  later  ones  too  sad. 
Let  us  take  him  at  his  happiest,  and  be  happy 
with  him  for  an  hour."  (Agnes  Repplier) 
Pittsburgh 

"They  are  not  in  the  least  like  anyone  else's. 
They  defy  classification  and  escape  analysis. 
Humor  and  fancy  run  thru  them  all,  but  it  is 
Lamb's  humor  and  Lamb's  fancy.  Nothing 
occurs  in  them  but  the  unexpected."  (Paul's 
"Men    and    letters")    Pittsburgh 


Ainger,  Alfred.  Lamb.  (English  men  of 
letters)      '94  Harper  75c  92 

"Short  biographical  and  critical  study.  Au- 
thor is  one  of  the  chief  authorities  on  his  sub- 
ject."     Pittsburgh 

Lucas,  E.  V.  Life  of  Charles  Lamb.  2v 
il    '05   Putnam  $5  92 

"Tells  the  story  of  Charles  and  Mary  Lamb 
as  far  as  possible  in  their  own  and  their  con- 
temporaries' words.  An  exhaustive  compila- 
tion with  editorial  comment,  rather  than  a  sys- 
tematic biography.  Jerrold's  'Charles  Lamb,' 
Bell's  miniature  series,  Macmillan,  1905,  50c,  is 
an  excellent  introduction  to  the  study  of  Lamb, 
briefly  sketching  his  life  and  writings." 
A.  L.  A.  sup. 

Lanier,  Sidney 

Mims,  Edwin.  Sidney  Lanier,  il  '05 
Houghton  $1.35  92 

"Well  rounded  presentation  in  Lanier's  own 
words,  where  possible.  A  sympathetic  inter- 
pretation of  a  fine  and  rare  character  and  a 
frank  estimate  of  the  poet's  claim  to  lasting 
fame."      (N.Y.   state   lib.)    A.   L.   A.   sup. 

Larcom,  Lucy 

A  New  England  girlhood,  outlined  from 
memory.  '89  Houghton  75c;  holiday  ed 
$1.25  92 

"New  England  poet's  recollections  of  her 
childhood  in  a  sea  coast  village  and  her  young 
womanhood  in  a  Lowell  factory.  Interesting 
contribution  to  New  England  social  history." 
(N.Y.   state  lib.)   A.   L.  A. 

Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich,  Eleanor  Hulda 
(Calhoun),  princess 
Pleasures    and   palaces;    memoirs,    il     '15 
Century  $3  92 

"Miss  Calhoun  went  to  Europe  as  a  girl  and 
made  a  name  for  herself  on  the  stage,  playing 
Shakesperian  parts  in  both  England  and  France. 
In  1903  she  married  Prince  Lazarovich-Hrebe- 
lianovich of  Serbia  and  retired  from  the  stage 
to  devote  herself  to  her  husband's  work  in  bet- 
tering the  condition  of  his  people.  This  book 
of  reminiscences  is  devoted  almost  wholly  to 
her  stage  experiences  and  to  memories  of  the 
men  and  women  it  was  her  good  fortune  to 
meet."      Book    rev.    digest 

"The  pages  which  relate  to  her  courtship  and 
the  arousal  of  her  deepest  sympathies  with  the 
victims  of  generations  of  Turkish  tyranny  in  the 
Balkans,  are  by  no  means  the  least  interesting, 
in  this  singularly  fascinating  book."  J.  R. 
Towse   in   Nation    101:634 

Many  illustrations  from  photographs  and 
drawings  by  J.  W.  Adams.  Appeared  in  the 
Century 

Lear,  Edward 

Letters    to     Chichester     Fortescue,     lord 

Carlingford     and       Frances,      countess 

Waldegrave;  ed.  by  Lady  Strachey.   '08 

Duffield  $3.50  92 

"Lear  (1812-1888)  is  known  chiefly  as  the 
author  of  the  'Book  of  nonsense,'  but  he  was  a 
considerable  water-color  artist  as  well,  and  a 
man  of  interesting  personality,  as  is  shown  in 
this  collection  of  letters  to  his  nearest  friends. 
They  were  written  from  1849-1864,  most  of 
which   time  he   spent  on   the  continent. 

'Lively  and  jolly  letters.  .  .  .  Their  en- 
tertaining quality  is  greatly  augmented  by  the 
countless  caricatures  and  odd  bits  of  drawing 
with  which  he  was  wont  to  adorn  his  letters. 
The  book  is  exactly  of  the  kind  that  one  can 
pick  up  from  a  shelf  in  an  odd  moment  of 
spare  time  and  dip  into  here  and  there  with 
enjoyment.'  "      (Outlook,    1908)    Pittsburgh 

Lee,  Robert  Edward 

Bradford,    Gamaliel,    jr.    Lee    the   Amer- 
ican, il    '12  Houghton  $3  92 
Titles    of  books   most    frequently   cited,   P286; 
notes,  P287-312 


40 


STANDARD   CATALOG 


Lee,  Robert  Edward — Continued 

"Interesting  and  original.  Not  a  conven- 
tional biography,  but  an  enthusiastic  and  ex- 
tremely careful  study,  based  on  authoritative 
sources,  of  various  aspects  of  General  Lee's 
character.  Illustrations  and  portraits.  All  the 
chapters  have  appeared  in  periodicals."  N.Y. 
state    lib. 

McKim,  R.  H.  Soul  of  Lee.  il  '18  Long- 
mans $1.50  92 
"A  psychological  rather  than  a  biographical 
study  of  Lee  in  popular  form.  There  is  a 
commendable  breadth  of  view  on  the  part  of  the 
author,  a  Confederate  veteran."  A.  L.  A.  bkl. 
"An  excellent  statement  of  the  typical  south- 
ern conception  of  Lee  and  the  Civil  war." 
Springfield    Republican,    April    22,    19 18 

"The  appendix  gives  a  detailed  account  of  the 
Gettysburg  campaign,  and  the  book  contains 
many  unfamiliar  and  unpublished  incidents." 
Cleveland 

Page,  T.  N.  Robert  E.  Lee,  the  man  and 
soldier,  il  maps    '11  Scribner  $2.50      92 

"A  sympathetic  and  in  the  main  nonpartisan 
biography,  based  on  the  author's  'Robert  E. 
Lee,  the  Southerner.'  The  account  of  Lee's 
relation  to  the  civil  power  of  the  Confederate 
government  and  the  history  of  his  campaigns 
are  very  full.  The  spirit  and  color  of  the  nar- 
ration make  it  more  acceptable  to  the  general 
reader  than  a  more  carefully  documented  work 
might  be.  Portrait  frontispiece  and  nine  maps." 
A.   L.  A.  bkl. 

"It  is  almost  totally  lacking  in  the  keen  an- 
alysis that  marks  Gamaliel  Bradford's  recent 
articles  in  the  Atlantic."  Amer.  hist.  rev.  17: 
851 

Trent,  W.  P.  Robert  E.  Lee.  (Beacon 
biographies)    '99  Small  60c  92 

Bibliography,   pi 32-5 
Li  Hung-Chang 

Bland,  J.  O.  P.  Li  Hung-Chang.  (Mak- 
ers of  the  nineteenth  century)  il  '17 
Holt  $2.25  92 

"An  admiring  but  impartially  critical  biogra- 
phy of  the  Chinese  diplomat  who  laid  the  found- 
ations of  China's  foreign  policy  and  during  the 
last  thirty  years  of  the  nineteenth  century  was 
that    nation's    'indispensable    man.'  "       Cleveland 

"No  new  material  about  Li  has  been  un- 
earthed, no  advance  has  been  made  towards 
obtaining  Chinese  estimates  of  the  man,  no  ap- 
proach towards  any  but  an  Englishman's  point 
of  view  is  attempted.  .  .  .  On  the  other  hand 
it  is  fair  to  add  that  the  book  is  easily  read  and 
that  it  portrays  a  rather  splendid  type  of  the 
original  viceroy."      Nation    105:488 

Lincoln,  Abraham 

Lincoln's  own  stories;  collected  and  ed. 
by  Anthony  Gross.     '12  Harper  $1.25 

92 
"The  editor's  purpose  has  been  to  select  from 
the  mass  of  stories  attributed  to  Lincoln  those 
authentic  anecdotes  which  are  most  essential  to 
an  understanding  of  his  character.  They  have 
been  arranged  as  far  as  possible,  consecutively, 
so  that  they  furnish  illustrations  of  the  various 
stages    of    Lincoln's    career."      Book    rev.    digest 

Brooks,  Noah.  Abraham  Lincoln,  and 
the  downfall  of  American  slavery. 
(Heroes  of  the  nations)  new  ed  '94 
Putnam    $1.50  92 

"Specially  full  of  legends  of  Lincoln's  early 
life  in  all  its  picturesqueness.  Partly  remi- 
niscent."     A.    L.    A. 

Browne,  F.  F.  Every-day  life  of  Abra- 
ham Lincoln,  rev  ed  il  '15  Putnam  $2.50 

92 

"A    revision    of    a    readable    biography   by     a 

former    editor    of    the    Dial;    first    published     in 

1883.      The    material   was   largely   gathered   from 

men    who   knew    Lincoln    and   includes   numerous 


anecdotes  and  bits  of  personal  reminiscence." 
Cleveland 

"An  analytical  index  probably  the  fullest  and 
most  serviceable  ever  included  in  a  Lincoln 
biography,  will  be  welcomed  by  every  reader 
and  will  give  the  work  a  unique  reference  value 
in  the  library."     Wallace  Rice  in   Dial  55:408 

See  also  H.  B.  Rankin's  "Personal  recollec- 
tions of  Abraham  Lincoln,"   19 16,  Putnam,   $2.50 

Charnwood,  G.  R.  B.  Abraham  Lincoln. 
(Makers  of  the  nineteenth  century)  il 
'16  Holt  $2.25  92 

Bibliographical   note,    p  455-8 

"Lord  Charnwood  has  given  us  the  most 
complete  interpretation  of  Lincoln  as  yet  pro- 
duced, and  he  has  presented  it  in  such  artistic 
form  that  it  may  well  become  classic.  .  .  . 
The  contribution  is  not  one  of  new  fact  but  of 
deep  thought.  ...  It  is  intended  for  the  in- 
telligent whether  they  are  informed  or  not,  but 
not  for  the  informed  unless  they  are  intelli- 
gent."     (C.   R.  Fish)  Amer.  hist.  rev.  22:413 

"An  English  account  written  for  Englishmen 
and  interesting  for  that  reason,  and  as  a  full 
and  on  the  whole  fair  account  of  Lincoln's 
character,  personal  and  political  ideals,  and  the 
conditions   under   which   he   lived  and   worked. 

'The  most  successful  portrait  of  Lincoln  in  a 
single  volume,  drawn  upon  a  clearly  conceived 
background  of  political  evolution,  that  has  so 
far   appeared.'  "      (Dial)    Cleveland 

Morgan,  James.  Abraham  Lincoln,  the 
boy  and  the  man.  il  '08  Macmillan 
$1.50  92 

"Simple,  straightforward  story,  lacking  the 
literary  quality  of  Nicolay  and  Hay's  'Short 
life,'  but  suited  to  a  less  cultured  class  of  read- 
ers. Chapter,  'A  course  in  Lincoln'  is  a  good 
select   bibliography."      A.   L.   A.   sup. 

Morse,  J.  T.  jr.  Abraham  Lincoln.  2v 
(American  statesmen)  '93  Houghton 
$1.35  ea  92 

"Best  (1904)  brief  life  of  Lincoln.  Con- 
densed but  clear.  Very  careful  of  facts  and 
inviting  confidence."     A.  L.  A. 

Nicolay,  Helen.  Personal  traits  of  Abra- 
ham Lincoln.  '12  Century  $2  92 
"When  the  author's  father  began  his  joint 
work  with  John  Hay  on  'Abraham  Lincoln:  a 
history,'  he  put  aside  certain  items  to  be  used 
in  a  chapter  on  'Personal  traits.'  This  material 
grew  to  proportions  far  beyond  his  expectations 
and  the  chapter  as  originally  planned  was  not 
written.  It  is  this  material  which  his  daughter 
has  carefully  worked  over  in  the  making  of  the 
present  book."      Book  rev.   digest 

Nicolay,   J.    G.       Short   life  of   Abraham 

Lincoln;   condensed   from  Nicolay  and 

Hay's   Abraham    Lincoln.  '02    Century 

$3  92 

"So  well  done  that  no  one  ignorant  of  its 
relation  to  the  larger  book  would  suspect  it  of 
being  an  abridgment."      (Nation,   1902)   A.  L.  A. 

Nicolay,  J.  G.,  and  Hay,  John.  Abra- 
ham Lincoln.   lOv  '90  Century  $25       92 

"The  authors,  as  private  secretaries  to  Pres- 
ident Lincoln,  stood  in  most  intimate  and  con- 
fidential relations  with  him,  and  had  his  ap- 
proval of  this  history  for  which  they  began  to 
prepare  during  the  war.  Their  work  is  really 
a  history  of  the  period  with  Lincoln  as  the  cen- 
tral figure,  particular  attention  naturally  being 
given  to  the  political  struggle  preceding  the 
war,  and  to  the  narrative  of  military  events. 
Illustrated."      Pittsburgh 

Robinson,  L.  E.  Abraham  Lincoln  as  a 
man  of  letters,   il  '18  Reilly  $1.50  92 

Selections    from    Lincoln's    works,    p2 19-33 

Bibliographical    note,    P335-6 

"Traces  Lincoln's  development  as  a  man  of 
letters,  and  shows  how  he  steadily  grew  in  his 
ability  to  reach  the  mind  and  heart  of  the 
people."     Brooklyn 


BIOGRAPHY— Individual 


41 


Lincoln,  Abraham — Continued 

Rothschild,  Alonzo.  "Honest  Abe;"  a 
study  in  integrity  based  on  the  early 
life  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  il  '17  Hough- 
ton $2  92 

"Illuminates  Lincoln's  moral  processes  as  ex- 
hibited by  his  active  life  from  childhood,  thru 
his  election  to  the  Senate.  Two  of  the  chapters 
are  concerned  with  him  as  a  lawyer;  one  as  a 
politician. 

List  of  books  cited,  P30o-io-"     Pittsburgh 
Memoir     of     Alonzo      Rothschild,     by     John 
Rothschild,   P285-306. 

Rothschild,  Alonzo.  Lincoln,  master  of 
men.  (Anniversary  ed.)  il  '08  Hough- 
ton $1.75  .         92 

"Shows  Lincoln's  moral  force  by  accounts  of 
his  relations  with  Douglas,  Sumner,  Chase, 
Seward,  Fremont  and  McClellan,  with  whom 
his  position  brought  him  into  close  relations  and 
frequent  conflict."  (N.Y.  state  lib.)  A.  L.  A. 
sup. 

Schurz,    Carl.       Abraham     Lincoln.      '91 

Houghton    $1.10  92 

"Originally  published  in  the  Atlantic  monthly 

as  a  review  of  'Abraham  Lincoln:  a  history,'  by 

Nicolay   and   Hay. 

'Perhaps  best  sketch  of  character  and 
achievements  of  the  great  president.'  "  (N.Y. 
state  lib.)   A.  L.  A. 

Tarbell,  I.  M.  Life  of  Abraham  Lincoln; 
drawn  from  original  sources,  new  ed  2v 
'17  Macmillan  $5  92 

"Illustrated  with  many  reproductions  from 
original  paintings,  photographs,  etc."  Subtitle 
"The  seventeen  years  since  the  first  publica- 
tion of  this  book  have  strengthened  the  verdict 
then  given  that  it  is  one  of  the  most  vivid  and 
authentic  biographies  ever  written  of  'the  first 
American.'  "  Boston  Transcript,  November  14. 
1917 

Wheeler,  D.  E.  Abraham  Lincoln.  (True 
stories  of  great  Americans)  il  '16  Mac- 
millan 50c  92 

"Brief,  popular  biography  which  is  intended 
for  young  people,  but  will  be  acceptable  for 
anyone  who  wishes  a  concise  account  of  Lin- 
coln's  life."      Cleveland 

Whitlock,  Brand.  Abraham  Lincoln,  il 
'16   Small   60c;   $1.25  92 

"A  revised  edition  of  the  work  originally  is- 
sued as  one  of  the  'Beacon  biographies.' 

'The  most  readable  of  all  the  short  biogra- 
phies   of    Lincoln.'  "       (Nation)    Pratt    quarterly 

Wright-Davis,  Mary.  Book  of  Lincoln, 
il  '19  Doran  $2.50  92 

"An  attractive  and  a  comprehensive  anthol- 
ogy. Certain  of  Lincoln's  famous  addresses, 
biographical  notes,  pedigree,  chronology,  and 
poems  about  him  occupy  the  larger  part  of  the 
volume.  Interesting  illustrations.  Indexes. 
Bibliography  (i8p).  Libraries  already  have  much 
of  the  material   in  usable  form."     A.   L.  A.   bkl. 

Livingstone,  David 

Home,  C.  S.  David  Livingstone,  new  ed 
il   '16  Macmillan   $1.25  92 

"Concise,  sympathetic  relation  of  the  life  of 
the  great  African  explorer  and  missionary, 
quoting  largely  from  his  diary  and  letters." 
N.Y.    state    lib. 

"In  the  belief  of  the  writer  Livingstone  is 
greatest,  not  as  a  scientist  nor  an  explorer  but 
as    a   man    and   missionary."      Preface 

See  in  connection  with  this  H.  M.  Stanley's 
"How   I   found    Livingstone"    Scribner   $2.50 

Lloyd,  Henry  Demarest 

Lloyd,  C.  A.  Henry  Demarest  Lloyd, 
1847-1903.  2y  il    '12  Putnam  $5  92 

"The  historian  who  in  the  future  engages  in 
the  task  of  tracing  the   beginnings  of  the   move- 


ment which  we  now  call  the  'social  unrest'  will 
find  one  great  landmark  to  guide  him,  and  that 
will  be  Lloyd's  work,  'Wealth  against  common- 
wealth' which  appeared  in  1894.  The  book  was 
the  first — and  even  today,  may,  perhaps  fairly 
be  called  the  greatest  speciman  of  the  'literature 
of  exposure'  in  this  country.  .  .  .  For  this 
reason  his  biography  .  .  .  ought  to  be  read  by 
all  those  who  are  fighting  today  for  the  com- 
mon  good."      Nation  94:618 

"Of  the  biography  which  is  one  of  the  most 
important  sources  of  history  the  United  States 
as  yet  has  very  little.  In  England  this  kind  of 
biography  is  abundant  and  of  immense  im- 
portance. ...  A  biography  of  this  character 
and  usefulness  to  the  historian  of  the  United 
States  during  the  era  when  Big  Business  was 
coming  into  existence  and  into  control,  and  one 
moreover  which  is  worthy  to  rank  with  the 
standard  English  biographies,  is  the  'Life  of 
Henry  Demarest  Lloyd.'  It  is  too  soon  to  es- 
timate Lloyd's  part  in  the  awakening  of  the 
public  conscience  to  the  evils  of  the  individual- 
istic system  under  which  the  United  States 
reached  its  great  material  development  of  the 
nineteenth  century.  It  is  therefore  of  special 
importance  to  have  a  true  picture  of  the  man  as 
reflected  in  his  private  letters,  as  well  as  in 
his  published  writings.  It  is  of  great  value  to 
the  future  historian  to  be  able  to  ascertain  how 
men  regarded  the  trusts  when  they  first  came 
into  existence,  and  what  forces  were  at  work 
to  arouse  sympathy  for  the  workers  and  to 
awaken  the  first  consciousness  of  the  class  prob- 
lems which  the  Americans  used  to  imagine  could 
never  arise  in  the  new  world."  (Edward  Por- 
ritt)  Amer.  pol.  sci.  rev.  6:656 

Lloyd  George,  David 

Dilnot,  Frank.  Llovd  George;  the  man 
and  his  story.     '17  Harper  $1.25  92 

Appendix:  Lloyd  George  on  America  and  the 
European   war 

"Not  a  critical  estimate  of  the  great  English 
leader  .  .  .  but  a  clear  journalistic  .  .  .  and 
sympathetic  account  of  the  man  as  he  appears 
to  a  newspaper  writer  who  has  had  an  unusual 
opportunity  for  following  his  career."  (Bell- 
man)   Pratt  quarterly 

Evans,  B.  G.  Life  romance  of  Lloyd 
George;  with  an  introd.  by  Charles 
Sarolea.    '15   Griffiths   75c  ?2 

"Deals  mainly  with  the  national  and  imperial 
aspects  of  his  career."     Pittsburgh 

Lodge,  Henry  Cabot 

Early  memories.    '13  Scribner  $2.50      92 

"Entertaining  recollections  of  Senator 
Lodge's  boyhood  in  Boston  during  the  Civil 
war,  travels  in  Europe,  studies  at  Harvard  and 
impressions  of  many  famous  public  men  and 
men  of  letters  up  to  the  beginning  of  his  own 
public  career."      N.Y.   state   lib. 

Appeared  in  a  condensed  form  in  Scribner's 
magazine,  V52-53,  September  1912 — June  1913. 
under   the  title   "Some  earlier  memories" 

Logan,   Mrs   Mary   Simmerson    (Cunning- 
ham) 
Reminiscences    of   a    soldier's     wife;     an 
autobiography,  il    '16  popular  ed  Scrib- 
ner $1.50  92 

"Interesting  account  of  the  life  and  times  of 
a  Southern  woman  married  at  seventeen  (1855) 
to  John  A.  Logan,  whose  distinguished  career 
as  Union  officer  and  United  States  senator  she 
actively  shared  and  describes  in  detail.  Ap- 
peared serially  in  the  Cosmopolitan."  Cleve- 
land 

London,  Jack 

John   Barleycorn,     il    '13   Century  $1.30 

92 

"These    supposedly     autobiographical    sketches 

first  published  in  the  Saturday  Evening  Post  are 

an  effective  plea  for  prohibition  and  incidentally 

for    woman's    suffrage,     as    the    author    believes 


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London,  Jack  — Continued 

that    woman's    vote    will      suppress      the    liquor 
traffic."      Cleveland 

See  in  connection  with  this  Mrs  London's 
"Our  Hawaii"  19 17,  Macmillan,  $2.25,  and  "Log 
of  the  Snark"  1915,  Macmillan,  $2.50,  and 
M.  E.  Johnson's  "Through  the  South  seas  with 
Jack   London"    19 14,   Dodd,    $2 

Longfellow,  Henry  Wadsworth 

Higginson,  T.  W.  Henry  Wadsworth 
Longfellow.  (American  men  of  letters) 
'02   Houghton  $1.35  92 

Bibliography,    P303-16 

"Rich  in  personal  recollections  and  knowl- 
edge of  Longfellow's  Cambridge  environment." 
(N.Y.  state  lib.)    A.  L.  A.' 

Longfellow,  Samuel.  Life  of  Henry 
Wadsworth  Longfellow;  with  extracts 
from  his  journals  and  correspondence. 
3v    '91  Houghton  $7.50  92 

Bibliography    3:427-41 

"Full  and  delightful  history  of  the  external 
aspects  of  a  lettered  life  in  a  refined  society,  as 
it  was  led  by  a  man  who  fulfilled  his  duties  in 
the  varied  relations  of  his  sphere  in  the  way 
that  made  his  days  beautiful  and  his  memory  a 
humanizing  influence  upon  all  who  have  any 
perception  of  the  sources  of  its  charm."  (Na- 
tion,   1886)    Pittsburgh 

Loti,  Pierre,  pseud 

Story  of  a  child;  tr  by  C.  F.  Smith  '01 
Birchard  92 

Louis  XIV,  king  of  France 

Hassall,    Arthur.      Louis     XIV    and     the 

zenith   of   French   monarchy.      (Heroes 

of  the  nations)    '95   Putnam  $1.50       92 

Note    on    the    authorities     of     the    reign     of 

Louis   XIV,   pref.    P15-16 

Louise,   queen    consort   of   Frederick   Wil- 
liam III,  king  of  Prussia 
Moffat,  M.  M.     Queen  Louisa  of  Prussia, 
il    '06  Dutton  $3.50  92 

"Popular,  sympathetic  study  of  the  famous 
queen,  her  domestic  life,  character  and  influence 
on  political  and  national  development.  Based 
on  German  authorities  and  the  queen's  letters." 
(N.Y.    state    lib.)    A.    L.    A.    sup. 

Contains  matter  not  found  in  other  biogra- 
phies, as  well  as  abundant  extracts  from  her 
recently   disclosed  correspondence 

Lowell,  James  Russell 

Letters  [1827-1891];  ed.  by  C.  E.  Norton. 
2v    '94  Harper  $8  92 

"Full  of  characteristic  humor  and  insight  and 
contributing  much  to  an  understanding  of  the 
man."      (N.Y.  state  lib.)  A.  L.  A. 

"The  letters  are  simple,  frank,  and  often 
charmingly  affectionate;  they  reveal  the  heart 
of  the  man,  and  perhaps  their  best  service  to  us 
is  the  impression  they  convey  that  the  man  and 
his  work  were   of  a  piece."      Pratt  alcove 

Greenslet,  Ferris.  James  Russell  Lowell; 
his  life  and  his  work,  il  '05  Houghton 
$1.60  92 

"An  interesting  and  useful  resume  of  life, 
with  critical  estimate.  Based  on  Lowell's  'Let- 
ters' and  Scudder's  authorized  'Life'  which  are 
still  of  chief  importance."  (N.Y.  state  lib.) 
A.  L.  A.  sup. 

Hale,  E.  E.  James  Russell  Lowell  and 
his  friends.  '99  Houghton  $3.50  92 
"Genial  personal  reminiscences,  admirably 
supplementing  more  formal  biography.  Valu- 
able picture  of  literary  conditions  in  New  Eng- 
land from  Lowell's  youth."  (N.Y.  state  lib.) 
A.    L.    A. 


Scudder,  H.  E.  James  Russell  Lowell. 
2v    '01   Houghton  $4  92 

Writings   of   Lowell,    2:421-45 
Authorized  biography  complementing   Lowell's 
"Letters" 

Lowell,   Mrs  Josephine   (Shaw) 
Stewart,   W.    R.     Philanthropic   work    of 
Josephine  Shaw  Lowell,  il    '11  Macmil- 
lan $2  92 

"Biographical  sketch,  selected  public  papers 
and  private  letters  of  a  dominating  personality 
in  New  York  state  charitable  and  correctional 
work,  whose  life  was  consecrated  to  industrial 
and  social  betterment.  By  the  president  of  the 
New  York  state  board  of  charities."  N.Y.  state 
lib. 

"The  unanalyzable  sense  of  personality  which 
is  the  salt  of  all  biography  nobly  savors  this 
whole  book."      American  economic   rev.   2:684 

Lucy,  Sir  Henry  William 

Sixty  years  in  the  wilderness.  '09  Dut- 
ton $3.50  92 

"For  thirty-five  years  'Toby,  M.  P.'  was  a 
national  institution — Punch's  long-honored  par- 
liamentary representative.  Sir  Henry  Lucy 
was  just  the  man  for  Punch  and  thru  a  ripe 
career  he  kept  the  freshness  of  his  salad  days. 
His  reminiscences  bubble  over  with  the  joy  of 
good   companionship."      Pittsburgh 

"The  whole  is  done  in  the  inimitable  style 
of  the  man  who  Balfour  once  said  has  the  'secret 
of  making  even  the  House  of  Commons  amus- 
ing.' "      Dial    61  =217 

Followed  by  "Sixty  years  in  the  wilderness, 
more  passages  by  the  way,"  and  "Nearing 
Jordan,"   Dutton,   $3.50  each 

Luther,  Martin 

Bohmer,  Heinrich.  Luther  in  light  of  re- 
cent research;  tr.  by  C.  F.  Huth,  jr.  il 
'16  Christian  herald  $1.50  92 

"An  academic,  critical  and  scholarly  work 
which  assumes  much  knowledge  of  Luther  on 
the  part  of  the  reader."     A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

"Includes:  A  pictorial  life  of  Luther,  being 
the  first  publication  of  the  collection  of  rare 
prints  in  the  possession  of  Rev.  William  Koep- 
chen,  who  also  contributes  the  descriptive  text 
and  titles."     N.Y.  branch  lib.  news 

Jacobs,  H.  E.  Martin  Luther,  the  hero 
of  the  Reformation,  1483-1546.  (Heroes 
of  the  Reformation)    '98  Putnam  $1.50 

92 

McGiffert,  A.  C.  Martin  Luther,  the  man 
and  his  work,  il    '11  Century  $3  92 

"The  most  convenient  and  trustworthy  treat- 
ment  of  Luther  which  the  general  reader  can 
now  (1911)  find  in  the  English  language."  (Na- 
tion) A.   L.  A.  sup. 

"Somewhat  more  condensed  and  popular  in 
style  than  Smith,  ("Life  and  letters,"  19 n, 
Houghton,  $3.59)  but  based  on  the  same  authori- 
ties and  following  the  same  general  style.  Cer- 
tain wider  phases  of  Luther's  influence  are 
hardly  touched  on  here,  the  material  in  the  lat- 
ter part  of  Smith's  life  occupying  but  a  few 
chapters  in  this.  In  point  of  accuracy  the  two 
biographies  are  equally  desirable."  A.  L.  A. 
bkl. 

Appeared  in  the  Century  magazine,  V81-83, 
December  19 10  to  November  191 1,  under  the 
title   "Martin   Luther  and  his  work" 

Singmaster,  Elsie.  Martin  Luther,  the 
story  of  his  life,  il   '17  Houghton  $1     92 

"A  brief,  popular,  inexpensive  biography  called 
forth  by  the  four  hundredth  anniversary  of  the 
Reformation.  'Contains  no  original  material, 
but  is  intended  to  serve  as  an  introduction  to 
the  longer,  richer  and  more  scholarly  records.' 
(Preface)  The  author  has  used  especially  the 
works  of  Dr  H.  E.  Jacobs,  Preserved  Smith 
and  Heinrich  Bohmer  and  quotes  often  from 
Luther's  own  works."     A.   L.  A.  bkl. 

"Miss  Singmaster  is  herself  the  daughter  of  a 


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Luther,  Martin — Continued 

Lutheran  clergyman,  and  is  an  accurate  student 
of  the  literature  of  her  subject."  Review  of 
reviews    55:667 

Lyon,  Mary 

Gilchrist,  B.  B.  Life  of  Mary  Lyon,  il 
'10  Houghton  $1.75  92 

"Portrays  the  development  of  a  poor,  men- 
tally starved,  but  dauntless  New  England  girl 
of  one  hundred  years  ago  in  the  pioneer  of 
woman's  higher  education  and  the  founder  of 
Mt  Holyoke  college.  Author,  a  Mt  Holyoke 
graduate,  who  writes  enthusiastically  in  a  rather 
self-conscious,  embroidered  style,  has  availed 
herself  of  all  possible  sources."      N.Y.  state  lib. 

Lyman,  Mrs  Anne  Jean  (Robbins) 

Lesley,  Mrs  S.  I.  L.  Recollections  of  my 
mother,  being  a  picture  of  domestic 
and  social  life  in  New  England  in  the 
first  half  of  the  19th  century.  '99 
Houghton  $3  92 

"Mrs  Lyman  was  the  wife  of  Judge  Joseph 
Lyman  of  Northampton,  Mass.  Their  social 
position  and  overflowing  hospitality  drew  to 
their  home  or  into  the  current  of  their  existence 
many  interesting  and  eminent  people,  including 
Emerson,  Webster,  Bryant,  Bancroft,  Channing, 
Harriet  Martineau,  Lydia  Maria  Child  and 
John  S.  Dwight.  The  Round  Hill  school,  the 
law  school  at  Northampton,  the  Unitarian  con- 
troversy, the  slavery  agitation,  the  early  growth 
of  American  literature — all  these  add  interest 
to  the  volume.  But  its  chief  attraction  lies  in 
its  quality  as  a  picture  of  the  best  New  England 
life  of  the  times."      Pittsburgh 

McCarthy,  Justin 

Reminiscences.  2v    '99    Harper  $4.50      92 

"Pen  pictures  of  most  of  the  famous  men 
and  women  of  the  Victorian  era,  by  a  shrewd 
observer,  a  generous  critic  and  an  adept  in  lit- 
erary portraiture."      (N.Y.   state   lib.)    A.   L.   A. 

Macaulay,  Thomas  Babington  Macaulay, 
1st  baron 
Trevelyan,  Sir  G.  O.  Life  and  letters  of 
Lord  Macaulay;  enl.  and  complete  ed; 
including  Macaulay's  marginal  notes. 
2v    '09  Harper  $5  92 

"The  authentic  biography  of  the  distinguished 
historian,  essayist  and  statesman  with  many  of 
his  letters,  prepared  with  complete  understand- 
ing and  sympathy  by  his  nephew."     Pratt  alcove 

"One  of  the  best  biographies  in  the  lan- 
guage."     (Leslie    Stephen)    A.    L.    A. 

"  'It  was  my  business,'  says  he  [Trevelyan], 
'to  show  my  uncle  as  he  was,  and  not  as  I  or 
any  one  else  would  have  had  him.'  ...  If 
Sir  George  had  set  himself  to  cut  away  all  early 
and  later  priggishness,  all  the  evidences  of  ex- 
treme partisanship  ...  if  he  had  given  us  a 
Macaulay  all  family  affection,  all  sweet  reason- 
ableness, all  pathetic  humanity,  a  trimmed, 
shorn  and  varnished  Macaulay,  we  should  have 
revolted  .  .  .  whereas,  by  giving  the  rough 
with  the  smooth,  and  letting  the  man  exhibit 
himself  as  he  actually  was  .  .  .  the  revolution 
of  opinion  in  the  minds  of  some,  the  establish- 
ment once  for  all  of  a  good  opinion  in  those  of 
others,  was  done  and  done  thoroly,  so  that  it 
will  never  need  to  be  done  again."  (George 
Saintsbury)  Pittsburgh 
— Same.  2v  in  1  popular  ed  76  Harper 
$2  92 

McClellan,  George  Brinton 

Michie,  P.  S.  General  McClellan.  (Great 
commanders)    '01  Appleton  $1.60         92 

"Thoroly  just  and  kind  to  McClellan,  yet 
impartial  and  searching  in  its  treatment  of  mil- 
itary  questions."      (Nation   73:323)   A.   L.   A. 

McCloskey,  John,  cardinal 

Farley.  J.  M.     Life  of  John,  cardinal  Mc- 


Closkey, first  prince    of   the    church    in 
America,  1810-1885.  '18  Longmans  $3.50 

92 
"Biography  of  the  first  American  cardinal, 
written  by  his  former  secretary,  the  present 
(19 18)  archbishop  of  New  York.  It  is  based 
largely  on  letters  and  private  papers  and  depicts 
the  religious  life  of  New  York  during  the  nine- 
teenth century."      Pittsburgh 

McClure,  Samuel  Sidney 

My  autobiography,  il  '14  Stokes  $2  92 
"Interesting,  simply  told  narrative  of  the 
author's  childhood  in  the  north  of  Ireland, 
early  struggles  to  earn  a  living  and  to  gain  an 
education  in  this  country,  of  the  development 
of  the  McClure  syndicate  for  magazine  articles 
and  impressions  of  Stevenson,  Kipling  and 
other  famous  authors  he  met  in  this  work." 
N.Y.   state  lib. 

Appeared  in  McClure's  magazine,  V41-43, 
October    1013-June    1914 

Machiavelli,   Niccolo 

Villari,  Pasquale.  Life  and  times  of  Nic- 
colo Machiavelli;  tr.  by  Linda  Villari. 
new  ed    '04  Scribner  $2  92 

"The  most  satisfactory  work  on  the  life  and 
public  services  of  this  great  political  philoso- 
pher and  writer.  For  centuries  Machiavelli  has 
been  regarded  as  a  species  of  sphinx  of  whom 
no  one  could  solve  the  riddle.  .  .  .  The 
work  of  Professor  Villari  is  an  effort  to  solve 
the  enigma.  The  theory  of  the  author  is  that 
an  adequate  explanation  can  only  be  found  in 
a  study  of  the  man  and  his  times,  as  revealed 
especially  in  his  unpublished  writings.  To  this 
task  Villari  has  applied  himself  with  unusual 
assiduity  and  success."  (C.  K.  Adams,  1888) 
Pittsburgh 

McKinlev.  William 
Olcott,  C.  S.     Life  of  William  McKinley. 
2v  il    '16  Houghton  $6  92 

"Official  .  .  .  biography  of  the  late  president, 
based  on  his  correspondence  and  confidential 
memoranda  and  on  the  reminiscences  of  political 
and  personal  associates.  While  the  work  is 
devoted  primarily  to  his  political  career,  his 
personality  and  character  are  duly  brought  out." 
(A.   L.   A.    bkl.)    Pittsburgh 

Madison,  Mrs  Dorothy  (Payne) 

Memoirs  and  letters  of  Dolly  Madison. 
'86  Houghton  $1.50  92 

"Letters  written  by  the  wife  of  the  fourth 
president,  a  bright  intelligent  woman  who  took 
a  lively  interest  in  what  was  passing  about  her. 
All  of  them  are  sprightly  and  entertaining; 
some  of  them  give  valuable  accounts  of  im- 
portant historical  events."  (Larned's  Literature 
of   American   history)    Pittsburgh 

Madison,  James 

Gay,  S.  H.  James  Madison.  (American 
statesmen)    '84  Houghton  $1.35  92 

"  'Study  of  the  statesman  and  of  the  political 
movements  in  which  he  took  part;  critical  and 
generous.'  (Nation)  From  federalist  standpoint; 
specially  full  on  origin  of  federal  convention." 
A.   L.  A. 

Mahan,  Alfred  Thayer 

From  sail  to  steam;  recollections  of 
naval  life.    '07  Harper  $2.25  92 

"Reminiscences  of  Captain  Mahan's  naval 
career  (1856- 1896)  involving  an  informal  history 
of  the  reconstruction  in  policy  and  equipment 
which  our  navy  has  undergone."  (N.Y.  state 
lib.)    A.   L.   A.   sup. 

Mann,  Horace 

Hinsdale,  B.  A.  Horace  Mann  and  the 
common  school  revival  in  the  United 
States.  (Great  educators)  '98  Scribner 
$1.25  92 

Bibliography,    P311-19 

"Resume    of   prior   history   of   elementary   ed- 


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Mann,  Horace — Continued 

ucation   in   America  and  summary   of  results   of 
Mann's   work."      (N.Y.   state   lib.)   A.   L.   A. 

Maria  Theresa,  empress  of  Austria 

Moffat,  M.   M.     Maria  Theresa,  il  maps 
'11   Dutton  $4  92 

"A  readable,  sympathetic  work,  dealing  less 
with  the  military  and  diplomatic  side  of  the 
famous  empress-queen's  reign  than  with  her 
personality  and  her  influence  on  her  time.  Let- 
ters published  in  English  for  the  first  time  show 
her  prejudices,  bigotry,  sincerity,  nobility  and 
all  the  other  elements  which  made  her  intensely 
human  and  the  greatest  statesman  of  her  line. 
Unusually  good  illustrations,  genealogical  tables, 
and  maps.  Bibliography  (3%p)-"  A-  L-  A- 
bkl. 

Marquette,  Jacques 
Thwaites,     R.      G.       Father    Marquette. 
(Appletons'   ser.  of  historic  lives)    '02 
Appleton  $1.25  92 

"Author  thoroly  familiar  with  facts  concern- 
ing Jesuit  hero's  services  as  missionary  and 
explorer  of  the  Mississippi."  (N.Y.  state  lib.) 
A.    L.    A. 

Marshall,  John 
Thayer,   J.    B.     John   Marshall.      (River- 
side   biographical    ser.)     '01    Houghton 
75c;  school  ed  60c  92 

"Brief,  giving  clear  pictures  of  Marshall's 
personal  traits  and  criticisms  of  his  constitu- 
tional doctrines."      (Wells)   A.  L.  A. 

Marx,  Karl 

Spargo,    Tohn.     Karl   Marx;    his   life   and 
work,  il    '10  Huebsch  $2.50  92 

"Sympathetic,  comprehensive  survey  of  life, 
activities  and  philosophy  of  the  founder  of 
modern  scientific  socialism.  The  first  adequate, 
tho  probably  not  the  definitive  biography,  pre- 
pared largely  from  original  investigations,  with 
assistance  of  Marx's  daughter  and  friends." 
N.Y.    state   lib. 

Mary  Stuart,  queen  of  Scots 

Lang,  Andrew.     Mystery  of  Mary  Stuart. 
3d  ed    '02  Longmans  $2.50  92 

"He  has  collated  narratives  _  with  extra- 
ordinary diligence,  confronted  witnesses  with 
each  other,  sifted  their  evidence  and  _  tested 
their  motives  with  exemplary  impartiality." 
(Literature)   A.   L.  A. 

Maccunn,  F.  A.     Mary  Stuart.    '05  Dut- 
ton $3  92 

"  'Among  a  host  of  technical  and  controver- 
sial monographs,  it  stands  out  a  simple,  lively 
narrative  of  the  remarkable  adventures  thru 
'The  real  Mary  is  to  be  seen  plainly  enough  in 
Mrs  Maccunn's  'Mary  Stuart.'  The  author,  tho 
full  of  sympathy  for  a  queen  who  was  set  a 
hopeless  task,  and  placed  in  a  position  where 
success  was  impossible,  is  perfectly  impartial. 
Her  attitude  toward  her  heroine  is  candidly 
historical  and  perfectly  womanly:  two  qualities 
not  often  combined  where  Mary  Stuart  is  in 
question.'  "  (Andrew  Lang  in  Academy,  1905) 
Pittsburgh 

Matthews,  Brander 

These   many    years;     recollections    of    a 
New  Yorker.    '17  Scribner  $3  92 

"In  this  volume,  Brander  Matthews,  critic, 
playwright,  and  professor  of  dramatic  literature 
in  Columbia  university,  who  says  that  he  'was 
born  contented  as  well  as  cheerful,'  tells  the 
story  of  his  own  life  of  almost  65  years,  setting 
down  'only  the  pleasanter  memories.'  "  Book 
rev.   digest 

"It  is  packed  with  glimpses  and  anecdotes 
of  nearly  all  the  great  figures  in  literary  and 
dramatic  life  of  the  last  generation  in  England 
and  America,  and  of  a  number  in  France,  and 
with   much    optimistic,   keen,   and   witty   observa- 


tion of  life  as  a  whole."      (N.Y.   Evening  Post, 
19 1 7)    Pittsburgh 

"The  chapters  on  New  York  literature  and 
its  members  are  of  such  unique  value  as  to  con- 
stitute an  incomparable  contribution  to  our  lit- 
erary history."  (W.  D.  Howells  in  New  York 
Times)     Cleveland 

Meade,  George  Gordon 

Pennypacker,  I.  R.  General  Meade. 
(Great  commanders)  '01  Appleton 
$1.60  92 

See  also  the  "Life  and  letters  of  George 
Gordon  Meade,"  2v,    19 13,   Scribner,   $7.50 

Medici,  Lorenzo  de',  called  II  Magnificio 

Armstrong,  Edward.     Lorenzo  de'  Medici 

and   Florence  in   the  fifteenth  century. 

(Heroes   of   the   nations)      '96  Putnam 

$1.50  92 

"Shows  thruout  careful  study  and  compar 
ison  of  both  earlier  and  later  approved  au- 
thorities."     (Atlantic)   A.   L.  A. 

Meredith,  George 

Letters;  collected  and  edited  by  his  son. 
2v  il    '12  Scribner  $4  92 

"An  admirable  selection  from  the  letters  of 
the  poet  and  novelist  to  his  family  and  friends 
covering  the  years  (1844-1909)  of  his  produc- 
tivity and  by  their  chronological  arrangement 
giving  the  story  of  his  life.  Meredith  had  all 
the  gifts  of  a  superior  letter  writer.  .  .  . 
These  letters  reveal  more  than  any  commentary 
on  his  work;  they  disclose,  too,  the  man  of 
wide  restless  interests  whose  mind  searched 
endlessly  during  his  long  life  for  the  roots  of 
art,  literature,  science  and  government." 
(George  Middleton  in  Bookman  36:286)  N.Y. 
state    lib. 

Published   in   part   in    Scribner's   magazine 

Mill,  John  Stuart 
Autobiography.  Holt  $1  92 

"A  human  document  of  unusual  interest. 
Mill,  a  noble  spirit  educated  by  a  narrow- 
minded  pedant,  shut  off  from  all  normal  con- 
tact, developed  an  egotism  that  makes  this  book 
so  completely  an  autobiography  that  besides  his 
father  and  his  wife  he  seems  to  exist  alone  in 
a  world  of  which  he  was  both  center  and  cir. 
cumference."      Pratt  alcove 

First  published  in   1873 

Milton,  John 

Pattison,  Mark.  Milton.  (English  men 
of  letters)    '80  Harper  75c  92 

"Able  monograph,  invaluable  to  students  of 
Milton  and  his  times."  (Leypoldt  &  lies) 
A.  L.  A. 

Mirabeau,  Honore  Gabriel  Riquetti,  comte 
de 

Willert,  P.  F.  Mirabeau.  (Foreign 
statesmen)    '98  Macmillan  80c  92 

"A  portrait  which  is  no  less  large  in  treat- 
ment because  it  is  small  in  scale.  .  .  .  Mira- 
beau, after  all,  was  eminent  for  a  statesmanship 
unique  in  his  time;  and  it  is  for  this,  as  well  as 
for  his  superb,  unconscious  gift  of  drama,  that 
Mr  Willert  justly  esteems  him."  (Spectator, 
1898)    Pittsburgh 

See  also  Louis  Barthou's  "Mirabeau,"  19 13, 
Dodd,    $3 

Mitchell,  Maria 

Life,  letters  and  journals;  comp.  by  P.  M. 
Kendall.    '96  Lothrop  $2  92 

"The  life  of  the  first  American  woman  who 
attained  eminence  in  science,  and  it  is  also  the 
perfect  picture  of  the  ideally  happy  life  of  the 
woman  who  devotes  herself  to  scientific  pur- 
suits."     (Nation,    1896)   Pittsburgh 

Mohammed 

Draycott,  G.  M.  Mahomet,  founder  of 
Islam.    '16   Dodd  $3  92 

"It   gives   a  vivid   picture   of   Mohamet's   life; 


BIOGRAPHY— Individual 


45 


Mohammed  — Continued 

it  is  admirable  in  its  discrimination  between 
the  inspired  and  accidentally-originated  points 
of  his  teaching  ...  it  considers  Mohamet  as  a 
man  ...  as  a  man  among  men."  (New 
statesman   8:188)   A.    L.  A.   bkl. 

Irving,  Washington.  Mahomet  and  his 
successors.  3v  (Knickerbocker  ed.)  '02 
Putnam  $3.75  92 

"One  of  the  most  attractive  accounts  of  the 
rise  of  Mohammedanism,  and  of  its  develop- 
ment from  622  to  710.  It  cannot  be  said  to 
contain  any  important  additions  to  our  knowl- 
edge of  Mohammedanism;  but,  like  all  of  Irv- 
ing's  histories,  it  does  much  to  compensate  for 
any  lack  of  profound  research  by  the  charm  of 
an  unusually  attractive  style."  (C.  K.  Adams) 
Pittsburgh 

Muir,  Sir  William.  Life  of  Mahomet; 
from  original  sources;  new  ed.  by  T.  H. 
Weir.   '94  Gurney  &  Jackson  10s  6d    92 

Abridgment  of  the  four-volume  work  pub- 
lished in    1 86 1 

"Undoubtedly  the  standard  life  of  Mohammed 
in  English.  Its  faults  and  limitations  are 
known;  but  it  is  not  the  less  a  work  of  great 
learning,  sound  criticism,  and  considerable  lit- 
erary   charm."       (Athenaeum,    1894)    Pittsburgh 

Townsend,  M.  W.  Mahommed,  "the 
great  Arabian."  '12  Houghton  75c  92 
"Study  of  the  life  of  Mohammed  by  the  late 
owner  and  editor  of  the  Spectator,  who  lived 
many  years  in  India  and  studied  Mohammedan- 
ism at  first  hand."      Publishers'   weekly 

See  also  "Speeches  and  table-talk  of  Moham- 
med;" tr.  by  Stanley  Lane-Poole,  1882,  Mac- 
millan,  $1.25 

Moliere,  Jean   Baptiste   Poquelin 

Matthews,  J.  B.  Moliere,  his  life  and  his 
works.  (University  ed.)  il  '16  Scribner 
$2  92 

"First  adequate  biography  in  English,  dis- 
cussing Moliere  as  the  chief  figure  in  French 
literature,  analyzing  the  thirty  plays,  and  com- 
paring and  contrasting  Moli&re  with  Shake- 
speare."    A.   L.  A.   sup. 

Moltke,  Helmuth  Karl  Bernhard,  graf  von 

Moltke:  his  life  and  character;  tr.  by 
Mary   Herms.    '92   Harper  $3  92 

"Largely  made  up  of  selections  from  his 
journals,  letters  and  autobiographical  notes.  _  In- 
cludes a  tale  written  at  the  age  of  twenty-eight. 
Illustrated  with  drawings  by  von  Moltke  and 
portraits."      Pittsburgh 

Monroe,  James 

Gilman,  D.  C.  James  Monroe  in  his  rela- 
tions to  the  public  service  during  a 
half  a  century,  1776  to  1826.  (American 
statesmen)    '83  Houghton  $1.35  92 

"Short,  simple  account  of  the  most  important 
events  in  Monroe's  life.  Thoro  bibliography  of 
Monroe  and  the  Monroe  doctrine  [P253-80] 
materially  adds  to  value."     A.  L.  A. 

Montagu,  Mary  (Pierrepont)  Wortley,  lady 

Letters  and  works;  ed.  by  Lord  Wharn- 
cliffe.  2v  (Bohn's  standard  lib.)  '93 
Bell  10s  92 

"Memoir  of  Lady  Montagu  by  W.  M. 
Thomas,  vi,  pi-48;  Anecdotes  of  Lady  Montagu 
by  Lady  Louisa  Stuart,  vi,  P49-121. 

From  1 7 18  to  1739,  Lady  Montagu  was  one 
of  the  leaders  in  English  society,  well  known 
to  all  the  wits  of  the  time.  She  accompanied 
her  husband  on  his  embassy  to  Turkey,  and 
the  letters  written  during  this  time  are  her  best. 
Her  sprightliness  and  the  easy  elegance  of  her 
style,  her  pungent  wit  and  shrewd  observa- 
tions make  the  letters  justly  famous.  'She 
lacks,  perhaps,  some  of  the  finer  graces  of 
style;  but  her  letters  have  that  one  supreme 
charm  .   .  .  they    are    herself.       Take     up    her 


volumes  and  you  see  not  only — or  chiefly — the 
chameleon  world  she  portrayed,  but  the  woman 
who  portrays  it.  There  she  is  with  her  stout, 
shrewd,  wise  old  face,  looking  at  you  thru  the 
pages.'  "      (S.  G.  Tallentyre)   Pittsburgh 

Montaigne,  Michel  Eyquem  de 

Dowden,  Edward.  Michel  de  Montaigne. 
(French  men  of  letters)  '05  Lippincott 
$1.50  92 

"Admirable  biography  'told  clearly  and  sim- 
ply, as  far  as  possible  in  Montaigne's  own 
words.  No  handbook  better  fitted  for  readers 
who  have  not  the  time  to  read  the  essays 
themselves.'  "      (Academy)    A.   L.  A.   sup. 

See  also  E.  H.  Sichel's  "Michel  de  Montaigne, 
191 1,  Dutton,  $3,  which  "consists  largely  of 
sentences  and  paragraphs  translated  from  the 
'Essays'  and  so  grouped  as  to  illustrate  various 
characteristics  of  Montaigne."  (Nation,  19 12) 
Pittsburgh 

Moody,  Dwight  Lyman 

Moody,  W.  R.  Life  of  Dwight  L. 
Moody,  by  his  son.    1900  Revell  $2    92 

"Authoritative  but  not  final."     A.  L.  A. 

Moody,  William  Vaughn 

Some  letters  of  William  Vaughn  Moody; 
ed.  with  an  introd.  by  D.  G.  Mason,  il 
'13  Houghton  $1.75  92 

"Selections  from  the  poet's  intimate  corre- 
spondence (1892-1909),  picturesque,  whimsical, 
vigorous  and  revealing  a  delightful  personality. 
Portrait."     N.Y.  state  lib. 

Moore,  George 

Hail  and  farewell.  3v  '11-'14  Appleton 
$2  ea  92 

Contents:  vi,  Ave;  V2,  Salve;  V3,  Vale 
"That  these  volumes  of  autobiography  may 
have  a  more  enduring  and  important  place  in 
literature  than  any  of  his  novels  is  in  the  range 
of  likelihood,  for  Mr  Moore  himself  seems  to 
count  for  more  than  anything  he  has  written." 
(Saturday   rev.)    St.    Louis 

Mitchell,  S.  L.  George  Moore.  (Irish- 
men of  today)    '16  Maunsel  92 

"An  audaciously  witty  and  'intentionally 
personal  book  about  a  very  personal  writer.' 
Miss  Mitchell  sketches  Moore  as  a  human  being, 
dismisses  his  claims  as  a  poet  and  painter  and 
pays  due  if  somewhat  irreverent  homage  to  his 
work  as  a  literary  and  art  critic,  a  novelist  and 
a   writer   of   memoirs."      Cleveland 

The  edition  carried  by  Dodd  at  $1  is  (1918) 
exhausted 

Morgan,  James  Morris 

Recollections  of  a  Rebel  reefer,  il  '17 
Houghton  $3  92 

"A  humorous  and  zestful  narrative  of  the 
events  of  an  unusually  varied  life.  Colonel 
Morgan  was  a  fifteen  year  midshipman  on  a 
Confederate  raider,  was  an  officer  in  the  army 
of  the  Khedive  of  Egypt,  lived  in  South  Caro- 
lina during  reconstruction  days,  and  visited 
Mexico,  Australia  and  Panama  in  different 
capacities.  Appeared  in  the  Atlantic  monthly." 
Cleveland 

"His  narrative  is  frank  and  relieved  with 
humor,  and  the  breadth  of  outlook  it  displays 
gives  it  a  value  as  a  historical  document."  Dial 
62:530 

Morgan,  John  Pierpont 

Hovey,  Carl.  Life  story  of  J.  Pierpont 
Morgan,  il    '11   Sturgis  $2.50  92 

Chapters:  Childhood  and  youth;  Banking 
during  the  Civil  war;  Railroad  wreckers;  First 
Morgan  syndicate;  Rescue  of  Vanderbilt;  Rail- 
road chaos  and  ruin;  Beginning  of  feudal 
finance;  Treasury  crisis  of  1895;  Relief  of  the 
government;  United  States  steel;  Spirit  of  com- 
bination; Period  of  feaction;  World  banking; 
Panic  of  1907;   Man  himself 

"An  excellent  and  in  the  main  accurate  ac- 
count of   the  means  by  which   Mr   Morgan   rose 


46 


STANDARD   CATALOG 


Morgan,  John  Pierpont — Continued 

to  royal  rank  among  financiers,  and  of  the  part 
his  dominant  personality  has  played  in  various 
national  crises.  The  picture  of  the  man  him- 
self betrays  a  lack  of  personal  acquaintance. 
.  .  .  An  attempt  to  be  wholly  fair  fails  some- 
what and  the  tone  is  laudatory.  Illustrations 
chiefly  from  photographs  of  Mr  Morgan." 
A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

Morley,  John,  viscount 

Recollections.  2v  '17  Macmillan  $7.50  92 
"A  happy  combination  of  autobiography, 
philosophical  comment,  literary  appreciation  and 
personal  character-sketching.  Viscounty  Morley 
had  an  extraordinary  talent  for  friendship. 
Mill,  Meredith,  Joseph  Chamberlain,  Parnell 
Sir  Alfred  Lyall  and  Frederic  Harrison — these 
are  but  samples  to  show  his  range  of  associa- 
tion. Good  stories  are  not  taboo,  and  piquant 
sayings  star  many  a  page.  Writing  with  entire 
freedom  of  the  political  events  of  England  of 
thirty  years  past,  in  which  he  played  so  worthy 
a  part  as  chief  secretary  for  Ireland  and  as 
secretary  of  state  for  India,  Morley  betrays  no 
secrets,  records  no  bitter  verdicts.  _  No  one  can 
lay  down  these  'Recollections'  without  feeling 
that  he  has  been  in  contact  with  something  large 
and  fine."  (Condensed  from  Nation,  1917) 
Pittsburgh 

"For  an  abstract  and  brief  chronicle  of  the 
later  nineteenth  century  times  in  all  their 
British  aspect,  the  reader  of  the  future  will  un- 
questionably turn  to  these  recollections  of  Lord 
Morley."     Boston  Transcript,   December  8,    19 17 

Morris,  Gouverneur 

Roosevelt,  Theodore.  Gouverneur  Mor- 
ris. (American  statesmen)  '99  Hough- 
ton $1.35  92 
"Outline  sketch,  vivid  enough  to  make  the 
man  comprehensible  and  to  offer  a  lively  view 
of  his  habits,  tendencies,  deeds  and  thoughts. 
Some  new  material  and  many  anecdotes." 
A.   L.   A. 

Morris,  William 

Clutton-Brock,  Arthur.  William  Morris, 
his  work  and  influence.  (Home  univ. 
lib.)   '14  Holt  60c  92 

"Admirable  short  biography,  sufficiently  com- 
prehensive for  a  small  collection,  treating  Mor- 
ris' life,  friends  and  interests  and  activities  in 
literature,  craftsmanship  and  socialism.  Based 
largely  on  Mackail's   'Life.'  "      N.Y.   state  lib. 

Compton-Rickett,  Arthur.  William  Mor- 
ris.   '13  Dutton  $3  92 

"A  study  of  the  various  phases  of  Morris' 
many-sided  personality  and  versatile  genius,  il- 
lustrated thru  fresh  stories,  unpublished  let- 
ters and  personal  reminiscences  of  men  who 
knew  him  and  shared  his  interests.  Gives 
rather  more  of  the  intimately  personal  than 
Mackail's  standard  biography,  and  supplements 
Aylmar  Vallance's  'William  Morris,  his  art,  his 
writings  and  his  public  life.'  "     Cleveland 

Analytical  biography  and  synopsis  of  events 
contemporary   with    Morris'   career,   P269-317 

Mackail,  J.  W.  Life  of  William  Morris. 
2v    '99  Longmans  $3.60  92 

"This  biography  of  the  architect,  painter, 
poet,  decorator,  printer  and  craftsman  in  many 
arts  was  undertaken  at  the  special  request  of 
the  late  Burne-Jones.  The  author  had  unre- 
served access  to  all  materials  in  the  possession 
of  the  family  of  William  Morris.  His  crowded, 
brave  and  useful  life  is  put  on  record  with  ex- 
cellent judgment  of  essentials  and  non-essen- 
tials."      Pittsburgh 

Noyes,  Alfred.  William  Morris.  (Eng- 
lish men  of  letters)    '09  Macmillan  $1 

92 
"Contains    the    essentials    of   Morris'    life   and 
able    analyses    of   his    writings.      Will    serve    ad- 
mirably where  so  extensive  a  work  as  Mackail's 
is  not  needed."     A.  L.  A.  sup. 


Morse,  Samuel  Finley  Breese 

Letters    and    journals;     ed.     bv    his    son, 
E.  L.  Morse.  2v  il   '14  Houghton  $8    92 

"Samuel  Morse  (1791-1872),  best  known  as 
an  inventor,  was  also  one  of  the  most  notable 
painters  of  his  time.  From  his  intimate  family 
letters  in  volume  one  we  have  an  account  of 
his  life  in  England  as  a  student  of  art,  his  re- 
turn to  America,  and  his  work  in  portrait 
painting.  Volume  two  tells  in  detail  the  events 
leading  up  to  the  invention  of  the  telegraph 
and  the  difficulties  which  Morse  overcame." 
Pittsburgh 

Trowbridge,  John.    Samuel  Finley  Breese 
Morse.  (Beacon  biographies)    '01  Small 


60c 

Bibliography,   pi 32-4 


92 


Motley,  John  Lothrop 

Correspondence;  ed.  by  G.  W.  Curtis.  2v 
'89  Harper  $7  92 

"A  most  delightful  collection  of  letters,  em- 
bracing his  life  in  Russia,  Holland,  England  and 
Austria,  and  his  intimate  friendship  with  Bis- 
marck. His  letters  written  during  the  Civil 
war  are  vivid  portrayals  of  the  intensity  of  feel- 
ing existing  at   that   time."      Pittsburgh 

Holmes,  O.  W.  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson 
and  John  Lothrop  Motley;  two  mem- 
oirs. (Riverside  ed.)  '98  Houghton 
$1.60  92 

Muir,  John 

Story  of  my  boyhood  and  youth,  il  '13 
Houghton   $2.50  92 

"A  notable  piece  of  autobiographic  writing — 
the  s.tory  of  an  unusually  interesting  boyhood 
and  youth  told  with  an  energy  and  an  eye  for 
the  diverting  and  significant  that  distinguish  it 
at  once  from  the  slipshod  garrulity  of  most 
books  of  the  kind.  The  first  fifty  pages  are  de- 
voted to  the  author's  boyhood  in  Dunbar,  beside 
the  North  sea.  At  the  age  of  eleven  he  accom- 
panied his  family  to  Wisconsin,  and  the  chap- 
ters that  form  the  bulk  of  the  volume  describe 
the  joys  of  those  early  days  in  a  new  land." 
(Condensed    from    Nation,    19 13)    Pittsburgh 

Reprinted   from   Atlantic   monthly 

Napoleon  I,  emperor  of  the  French 

The  Corsican;  a  diary  of  Napoleon's  life 
in  his  own  words;  comp.  and  tr.  by 
R.  M.  Johnston.  '10  Houghton  $2  92 
"Passages  selected  from  letters,  state  papers 
and  conversations,  and  arranged  chronologically 
under  the  dates  to  which  they  refer.  They 
form  an  interesting  but  incomplete  and  discon- 
nected autobiography  of  decided  interest  as  a 
psychological  study."      A.   L.  A.   sup. 

Fisher,  H.  A.  L.  Napoleon.  (Home 
univ.  lib.)  il  maps    '13  Holt  60c  92 

"Concise  but  lucid  outline  of  Napoleon's 
career,  with  emphasis  on  his  character  rather 
than  on  his  campaigns.  Of  rare  excellence,  dis- 
playing true  literary  and  historical  appreciation 
and  correct  proportion  and  perspective." 
(Amer.  hist,  rev.)    N.Y.  state  lib. 

Appendixes:  Some  maxims  of  Napoleon; 
Genealogy   of   the    Bonaparte   family. 

Bibliography,   P252-3 

Fournier,  August.  Napoleon  I;  tr.  by 
A.  E.  Adams.  2v  maps   '15  Holt  $5    92 

"The  first  edition  of  this  important  work 
(translated  by  Corwin  and  Bissell)  has  long 
been  considered  by  the  late  Lord  Acton  and 
other  scholars  the  best  account.  The  present 
volumes  are  the  first  English  translation  of  the 
revised  and  enlarged  edition  of  1904.  .  _.  .  As 
a  study  of  Napoleon's  military  operations  the 
work  will  maintain  a  high  place,  but  it  is  by  no 
means  so  strong  on  the  personal  side.  The 
translation  is  not  impeccable.  Bibliography 
(i43P)-"      A.    L.    A.    bkl. 


BIOGRAPHY— Individual 


47 


Napoleon  I,  emperor  of  the  French — Cont. 
— Same;   tr.  by  M.  B.  Corwin  and  A.  D. 
Bissell;  ed.  by  E.  G.  Bourne.    '03  Holt 
$2  92 

Bibliography,    P745-88 

"One  of  the  more  important  of  the  shorter 
biographies;  based  on  thoro  research,  and  giving 
a  good  view  of  the  general  historical  situation." 
(Pittsburgh)    A.    L.    A. 

Hudson,  W.  H.  The  man  Napoleon,  il 
'14  Crowell  $1.50  92 

"An  excellent  resume  of  the  essential  facts 
in  Napoleon's  career,  with  only  so  much  history 
as  is  required  for  a  background."  (Review  of 
reviews)    Pratt   quarterly 

"Excellent  popular  life,  .  .  .  More  attrac- 
tive than  any  other  one-volume  biography,  in 
style,  illustration,  type  and  binding."     Wis.  bul. 

Morgan,  James.  In  the  footsteps  of 
Napoleon,  il  '15  Macmillan  $2.50  92 
"The  author  traveled  nearly  20,000  miles  to 
the  famous  scenes  in  Napoleon's  life  and  along 
the  line  of  his  marches,  and  has  written  an  un- 
usually human  and  dramatic  biographical  sur- 
vey, in  which  he  has  attempted  to  'portray  the 
man  in  his  various  backgrounds,  to  bring  closer 
his  habitations  and  battle  fields,  to  simplify  the 
geography  of  his  campaigns.'  Many  interesting 
illustrations."      A.   L.   A.   bkl. 

Ropes,  J.  C.  First  Napoleon;  a  sketch, 
political  and  military.  3d  ed  '86  Hough- 
ton $2.50  92 

Lowell   institute  lecture,   March,    1885 
"Concise    and    forcible."       (N.Y.     state    lib.) 
A.   L.   A. 

Rose,  J.  H.  Life  of  Napoleon  I.  '07 
Macmillan  $3  92 

"Mainly  public  career,  and  diplomatic  and 
governmental  rather  than  military  history. 
Contributes  new  material  from  British  records." 
(N.Y.    state    lib.)    A.    L.    A. 

Rose,  J.  H.  Personality  of  Napoleon; 
the  Lowell  lectures  for  1912.  il  maps 
'12  Putnam  $2.50  92 

"These  essays,  by  an  eminent  authority  on 
the  subject,  are  in  no  sense  an  exhaustive  an- 
alysis of  Napoleon's  character,  but  rather  an 
estimate  of  the  value  of  the  personal  factor  in 
his   achievements."      Pittsburgh 

"The  most  important  attempt  to  present  a 
complete  conception  of  the  great  man's  charac- 
teristics since  Taine  published  the  first  part  of 
his  'Modern  regime.'  "  H.  E.  Bourne  in  Dial 
S5--3S7 
Rosebery,  A.  P.  Primrose,  earl  of 
Napoleon;  the  last  phase.  1900  Harper 
$3  92 

"A  plea  for  Napoleon's  right  to  have  been 
treated  differently,  and  an  indictment,  in  un- 
sparing terms  of  England's  conduct  towards 
him.  ...  In  so  far  as  it  rebukes  England 
this  book  can  appeal  only  to  the  minority;  but 
the  drama  is  so  skillfully  unfolded,  and  the 
central  figure  is  so  minutely  bodied  forth,  that 
it  is  also  a  book  for  all.  .  .  .  Lord  Rose- 
bery is  never  dull.  He  has  humor  as  well  as 
thoroness,  picturesqueness  as  well  as  fluency. 
Better  still  he  has  imaginative  sympathy." 
Pittsburgh 

Seeley,  Sir  J.  R.     Short  history  of  Napo- 
leon the  First.    '01  Little  $1.50  92 
"Able    brief    account    from    hostile    point     of 
view."      (Adams)   A.  L.  A. 

Nast,  Thomas 

Paine,  A.  B.  Thomas  Nast:  his  period 
and  his  pictures.  '04  Harper  $2.50  92 
"Interesting  account  of  the  life  and  work  of 
the  famous  cartoonist.  His  cartoons  were  a 
powerful  factor  in  electing  Lincoln  the  second 
time,  in  temperance  reform,  and  in  the  exposure 
of  the   Tammany  ring."      Pittsburgh 


Nelson,  Horatio  Nelson,  viscount 
Callender,  G.  A.  R.    Life  of  Nelson,  il  '12 
Longmans   50c;  90c  92 

"A  short,  spirited  biography  which  is  admir- 
ably adapted  to  older  boys  and  adult  readers 
who  like  direct,  simple  biography.  The  text 
is  reprinted  from  volume  three  of  'Sea  kings 
of  Britain'  (1911).  The  introduction  tells  of 
books  about  Nelson,  the  ships  he  sailed  in  and 
the  naval  wars  during  his  lifetime,  and  a  list  of 
Nelson  relics  and  a  glossary  are  appended. 
There  are  twelve  reproductions  of  paintings  and 
engravings  and  seven  maps  and  battle  plans." 
A.   L.   A.  bkl. 

Lang,  John.  Life  of  Nelson,  il  '15  Stokes 
$1.50  92 

"The  story  of  Nelson's  career  is  told  from 
childhood  to  the  battle  of  Trafalgar.  His 
heroic  qualities  and  his  devotion  to  his  coun- 
try are  stressed.  Nine  full  page  pictures  in 
color."      Book   rev.   digest 

Mahan,  A.  T.  Life  of  Nelson,  the  em- 
bodiment of  the  sea  power  of  Great 
Britain.  2d  ed  rev  '07  Little  $8  92 

"Formerly  an  officer  in  the  United  States 
navy,  the  writer  became,  after  his  retirement, 
an  authority  in  naval  history.  His  exposition 
of  Nelson  the  seaman  in  this  work  is  un- 
equalled."     Pratt   alcove 

"  'Treats  with  full  competence  the  three  as- 
pects involved:  personal,  professional  and 
political.'  (Nation)       Authoritative.         Makes 

Nelson  describe  himself  as  far  as  possible,  and 
tell  the  story  of  his  own  inner  life  as  well  as  of 
his    external    actions."      A.    L.    A. 

Southey,  Robert.  Life  of  Nelson;  in- 
trod.  by  Henry  Newbolt.  il  '16  Hough- 
ton $2  92 

"A  holiday  edition,  attractively  bound  and 
printed  in  good  type.  The  illustrations  by 
A.  D.  McCormick,  consisting  of  sixteen^  colored 
plates  and  chapter  heads  in  line  drawing,  are 
well  done."     A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

"Tho  one  of  the  best  known  and  most  popu- 
lar of  all  lives  of  Nelson,  it  is  unreliable  as 
biography,  but  interesting  and  valuable  as  lit- 
erature, one  of  Southey's  best  works."  Pitts- 
burgh 

Newcomb,  Simon 

Reminiscences  of  an  astronomer.  '03 
Houghton  $3  92 

"Distinguished  American  astronomer's  rem- 
iniscences of  a  long  acquaintance  with  scientific 
men  and  movements.  He  writes  with  charming 
modesty  and  frankness  of  his  own  career  and 
contributes  much  that  is  valuable  to  the  history 
of  astronomical  progress  during  his  life  time." 
Pittsburgh 

Newman,  John  Henry,  cardinal 
Apologia  pro  vita  sua.  new  ed    '97  Long- 
mans $1.50;  pocket  ed  90c  92 

"Remarkable  account  of  the  inner  life  of  the 
distinguished  English  cardinal  for  forty-five 
years,  written  in  answer  to  a  controversial 
pamphlet  by  Charles  Kingsley.  'Few  books  have 
so  triumphantly  accomplished  their  purpose  as 
that  remarkable  work.  Its  simple  candour 
wrought  conviction  even  in  theological  op- 
ponents, while  it  revolutionized  the  popular 
estimate  of  its  author.'  "  (Dictionary  of  na- 
tional   biography)    Pittsburgh 

— Same;  the  two  versions  of  1864  and 
1865,  preceded  by  Newman's  and 
Kingsley's  Pamphlets,  with  an  introd. 
by  Wilfrid  Ward.    '13  Oxford  75c      92 

Ward,  W.  P.  Life  of  John  Henry,  car- 
dinal Newman;  based  on  his  private 
journals  and  correspondence.  2v  il  '13 
Longmans  $9;  cheap  ed  $4.50  92 

"A    valuable   contribution    to   history    and   lit- 


48 


STANDARD    CATALOG 


Nelson,  Horatio  Nelson,  viscount — Cont. 

erature.  The  writer  stands  in  the  first  rank  of 
living  biographers  and  has  been  enabled  to 
employ  facts  not  formerly  known.  _  A  clear  and 
outspoken  narrative  which  makes  it  possible  for 
the  first  time  to  estimate  the  cardinal's  career 
as  a  whole."  (Adapted  from  Nation  [London]) 
Pratt  quarterly 

"The  author  has  so  selected  his  material  from 
the  great  mass  of  letters,  from  notes  and  rec- 
ords and  from  Newman's  private  journals  and 
correspondence,  that  the  work  is  almost  an  au- 
tobiography. .  .  .  The  admirable  introduc- 
tion is  a  clear  brief  of  the  whole  work,  and 
prepares  the  reader  for  the  treatment  of  New- 
man not  only  as  an  ecclesiast  but  as  a  writer, 
thinker,  and  a  great  force  in  the  intellectual 
life  of  England."     A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

Nietzsche,  Friedrich  Wilhelm 

Ecce  homo  (Nietzsche's  autobiography); 
tr.  by  A.  M.  Ludovici.  '11  Macmillan  $2 

92 

"Scarcely  an  autobiography,  rather  a  phil- 
osophical statement  of  Nietzsche's  personal  re- 
actions on  life,  grouped  under  the  following 
heads:  Why  I  am  so  wise;  Why  I  am  so 
clever;  Why  I  write  such  excellent  books;  Why 
I  am  a  fatality.  Contains  also  a  selection  of  his 
poems."     Cleveland 

Foerster-Nietzsche,  Elizabeth.  Life  of 
Nietzsche;  tr.  by  A.  M.  Ludovici.  2v 
il   '12   Sturgis  $4  92 

"Elizabeth  Nietzsche,  well  known  as  the  most 
consistent  advocate  and  furtherer  of  _  her  broth- 
er's mission,  is  at  her  very  best  in  this  in- 
timate story  of  the  life  she  knew  so  well."  Dial 
53:i27 

"The  chief  interest  of  Frau  Forster- 
Nietzsche's  book  is  the  clear  picture  that  it  gives 
of  Nietzsche's  character  and  individuality,  but  it 
also  throws  occasional  light  upon  the  genesis  of 
his   philosophical   ideas."      Spectator    114:238 

More,  P.  E.  Nietzsche,  il  '12  Houghton 
$1.10  92 

"A  readable  eighty-seven  page  summary  by 
the  editor  of  the  Nation,  of  the  life,  phil- 
osophical position  and  guiding  principles  of 
Friedrich  Nietzsche,  constituting  an  excellent 
introduction  to  his  works."      N.Y.  state  lib. 

Nightingale,  Florence 

Cook,  Sir  E.  T.  Life  of  Florence  Night- 
ingale, il  '05  Macmillan  $1.75;  memorial 
ed  $2  92 

"Bibliography,   V2,   P437-66. 

A  masterpiece  of  biography,  which  reveals 
Miss  Nightingale  not  as  a  merely  romantic  and 
picturesque  figure,  but  as  an  administrator  of 
the  highest  order.  Shows  that  her  Crimean  ex- 
perience was  only  the  starting  point  for  more 
valuable  achievement  in  hospital  reform.  An 
essentially  sober  record,  but  one  which  derives 
charm  from  the  humor  which  shines  from  her 
correspondence."  (Condensed  from  Nation, 
19 14)   Pittsburgh 

Richards,  L.  E.  Florence  Nightingale; 
the  angel  of  the  Crimea.  '09  Appleton 
$1.35  92 

"Told  in  very  attractive  style,  showing  marked 
sympathy  and  emphasizing  the  great  and  wo- 
manly qualities  that  make  its  subject  one  of  the 
most  honored  of  the  world's  helpers.  Gives  an 
excellent  picture  of  hospital  nursing  and  of  the 
horrors    of  war."     A.   L.  A.   bkl. 

Ninomiya,  Sontoku 

Tomita,  Kokei.  Peasant  sage  of  Japan: 
the  life  and  work  of  Sontoku  Ninom- 
iya; tr.  from  the  Hotokuki  by  Tadasu' 
Yoshimoto.  '12  Longmans  $1.50  92 
"The  story  of  Sontoku  Ninomiya,  [1787- 
1856],  the  Japanese  sage  and  philanthropist,  is 
here  related  with  exceptional  simplicity  and 
directness    and   well    translated.      His    work   was 


inspired  by  the  highest  ideal  of  social  service 
and  his  life  distinguished  by  constant  self-sacri- 
fice and  devotion  to  his  dominant  aim  of  im- 
proving the  conditions  of  the  poor.  A  valuable 
glimpse  of  the  old  feudal  order  is  obtained." 
A.    L.   A.    bkl. 

"The  story  is  simple  and  essentially  human, 
and  emphasizes  in  a  forceful  way  the  unity  of 
disinterested  service  for  mankind  the  world 
over."      Amer.   jour.   soc.    18:265 

Northcliffe,  Alfred  Charles  William  Harms- 
worth,  1st  baron 
Carson,  W.  E.     Northcliffe,  Britain's  man 
of  power,  il    '18  Dodge  $2  92 

"A  popular,  eulogistic,  dramatic  account  of 
the  life  and  work  of  Lord  Northcliffe,  with  par- 
ticular emphasis  on  his  part  in  Great  Britain's 
conduct  of  the  war."     A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

Norton,  Charles  Eliot 

Letters,  with  biographical  comment  by 
his  daughter,  Sara  Norton,  and  M.  A. 
De  Wolfe  Howe.  2v  il  '13  Houghton 
$6  92 

Twenty-six  good  illustrations,  chiefly  por- 
traits, bibliography  and  index 

"A  notable  selection  from  the  letters  of  the 
most  finished  scholar  in  the  famous  nineteenth 
century  literary  group  of  New  England,  written 
to  such  friends  as  Ruskin,  Carlyle,  Lowell  and 
Leslie  Stephen,  and  constituting  a  valuable  ad- 
dition to  American  literature."     Wis.  bul. 

O'Connell,  Daniel 

Dunlop,  Robert.  Daniel  O'Connell  and 
the  revival  of  the  national  life  in  Ire- 
land. (Heroes  of  the  nations)  1900 
Putnam  $1.50  92 

"Expansion  of  article  in  Dictionary  of  na- 
tional biography;  contains  an  account  of  O'Con- 
nell's  public  career,  relation  to  Catholic  asso- 
ciation 1823-25,  Thomas  Drummond,  repeal  agi- 
tation, etc.,  from  sympathetic  point  of  view." 
(Johnston)   A.   L.  A. 

O'Connor,  Elizabeth  (Paschal) 

I  myself,  il    '14  Putnam  $2.50  92 

"A  book  of  personal  reminiscences  drawn 
from  the  author's  store  of  memories  of  Amer- 
ica, Ireland  and  England.  As  the  wife  of  the 
Irish  journalist,  T.  P.  O'Connor,  she  met  the 
most  distinquished  men  and  women  of  the  mod- 
ern English  literary  world  and  her  book  is  full 
of  interesting  anecdotes  and  quotations  from 
letters,  among  the  latter,  two  letters  from  George 
Bernard  Shaw,  others  from  Barrie,  Conan  Doyle 
and  George  Meredith.  Also  there  are  interest- 
ing comparisons  of  England  and  America,  of 
English  and  American  men  as  husbands,  etc." 
Book   rev.    digest 

O'Connor,  Mrs  Thomas  Power.  See  O'Con- 
nor, E.   P. 
Ogilvy,  Margaret.     See  Barrie,  M.  O. 
Osborne,  Dorothy.   See  Temple,  D.  O. 
Ossoli,  Margaret  (Fuller),  marchesa  d' 
Higginson,  T.  W.     Margaret   Fuller  Os- 
soli.    (American    men    of    letters)     '84 
Houghton  $1.35  92 

Bibliographic  appendix,  P315-18 

Paine,  Thomas 

Sedgwick,  Ellery.  Thomas  Paine.  (Bea- 
con biographies)    '99  Small  60c  92 

Bibliography,  p  148-50 

"Good,  very  short  biography,  accurate,  ani- 
mated and  impartial."      Pittsburgh 

Palmer,  Mrs  Alice  Freeman 

Palmer,  G.  H.  Life  of  Alice  Freeman 
Palmer.    '08  Houghton  $1.75  92 

"The  work  of  Alice  Freeman  Palmer  (1855- 
1902)  was  of  historical  importance  in  the  de- 
velopment of  education   in  America.      Becoming 


BIOGRAPHY— Individual 


49 


Palmer,  Mrs  Alice  Freeman — Continued 

president  of  Wellesley  college  at  the  age  of  26, 
she  shaped  its  policies  in  the  direction  they 
have  since  followed.  She  was  a  member  of  the 
Massachusetts  State  board  of  education  and  for 
three  years  dean  of  the  Woman's  department 
of  the  University  of  Chicago.  All  these  in- 
terests are  fully  treated  in  this  biography,  writ- 
ten by  her  husband,  but  they  are  subordinated 
to  the  intimate  and  penetrating  study  of  Mrs 
Palmer  as   a  woman."      Pittsburgh 

Pankhurst,  Mrs  Emmeline   (Goulden) 
My  own  story,  il   '14  Hearst's  int.  lib.  $2 

92 

Partly   reprinted  from   Good  housekeeping 
"History  of  the  woman  suffrage  movement  in 
England    and    a    defense    of    militancy    by    the 
English    leader    who    has    identified   herself    with 
the  cause  from  its  beginning."     Pittsburgh 

Parker,  Theodore 

Chadwick,  J.  W.  Theodore  Parker, 
preacher  and  reformer.  1900  Houghton 
$2.50  92 

Bibliography,  pref.  pi  1-20 

"Well  proportioned  outline  in  which  the 
scholar,  teacher,  minister,  heretic,  theologian 
and  antislavery  leader  lives  before  us."  (N.Y. 
state  lib.)  A.  L.  A. 

Parkman,  Francis 

Farnham,  C.  H.  Life  of  Francis  Park- 
man.  (Frontenac  ed)    '01  Little  $2      92 

Bibliography,  P359-64 

"Portrays  an  unusual  and  inspiring  person- 
ality."     (N.Y.  state  lib.)   A.   L.  A. 

Parnell,  Charles  Stewart 

O'Brien,  R.  B.  Life  of  Charles  Stewart 
Parnell,  1846-1891.  2v    '99  Harper  $2.50 

92 

vi,  2d  ed  1899 

Mainly  political  biography  with  rather  meager 
personal   details.      By   a  political   associate 

Pasteur,  Louis 

Keim,  Albert,  and  Lumet,  Louis.  Louis 
Pasteur;  tr.  by  F.  T.  Cooper.  (Great 
men)  il  '14  Stokes  50c  92 

"The  biography  is  written  by  two  Frenchmen 
who  speak  of  Pasteur  as  'one  of  the  glories  of 
France.'  They  trace  his  life  thru  boyhood,  and 
student  days,  tell  of  his  early  scientific  experi- 
ments and  describe  the  discovery  that  made  his 
name  known  in  every  country.  The  volume  is 
illustrated  and  there  is  a  good  bibliography  and 
a  brief  index."     Book  rev.  digest 

Paget,  Stephen.  Pasteur  and  after  Pas- 
teur. (Medical  history  manuals)  '14 
Macmillan  $1.25  92 

A  brief  biography  of  Pasteur  and  sketches  of 
the  work  of  Lister,  Koch,  Haffkine,  and  Roux 

Vallery-Radot,  Rene.  Life  of  Pasteur;  tr. 
by  Mrs  R.  L.  Devonshire.  2v  '02 
Doubleday  $3  92 

"The  whole  of  this  noble  life  is  laid  open  in 
these  pages.  .  .  .  The  scientific  world  in  which 
Pasteur  lived  is  veraciously  and  vividly  por- 
trayed, and  this  is  one  of  the  most  valuable 
features  of  the  work."  (Nation,  1902)  Pitts- 
burgh 

Pater,  Walter 

Benson,  A.  C.  Walter  Pater.  (English 
men  of  letters)    '06  Macmillan  75c     92 

"Appreciative  study  of  personality  and  writ- 
ings, interpreting  Pater's  artistic  temperament 
with  rare  sympathy  and  felicity  of  phrase." 
(N.Y.  state  lib.)  A.  L.  A.  sup. 

Greenslet,  Ferris.  Walter  Pater,  new  ed 
'11  Houghton  90c  92 

Chronology,  P153-63 


Pawlowska,  Y01 

A  child  went  forth,  il   '14  Houghton  $1.50 

92 
"A  simple,  unaffected  story,  but  most  effec- 
tive, telling  of  the  childhood  and  life  around  a 
little  Hungarian  girl  until  she  was  sent  to  Eng- 
land to  school.  Characters,  atmosphere,  scen- 
ery and  mode  of  life  are  made  so  vivid  that  it 
seems  as  tho  the  material  of  the  story  must  be 
autobiographical."     A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

"Essentially  autobiography."      Publisher 

Penn,  William 

Fisher,  S.  G.     True  William  Penn.  2d  ed 

1900  Lippincott  $2  92 

"Faithful      presentation      of      his      life      and 

strangely    contrasted    circumstances    in    England 

and  America."      (N.Y.   state  lib.)   A.   L.  A. 

Graham,  J.  W.  William  Penn,  founder 
of  Pennsylvania,  il  '17  Stokes  $2.50      92 

Bibliography,    P314-17 

"It  is  not  a  book  which  represents  original 
research,  but  it  is  a  well  written,  sympathetic 
biography,  and  one  of  modern  scope;  with  bib- 
liography and  many  illustrations,  notes  about 
which  are  given  in  an  appendix."  Times  [Lon- 
don]  lit.  sup. 

"Written  by  a  Friend  it  gives  an  insight  into 
the  impelling  religious  force  behind  his  char- 
acter which  has  usually  suffered  thru  being  pre- 
sented from  the  merely  political  and  historical 
point  of   view."      A.    L.   A.   bkl. 

Holland,  R.  S.  William  Penn.  (True 
stories  of  great  Americans)  il  '15  Mac- 
millan  50c  92 

"An  interesting  brief  account  of  Penn's  re- 
ligious background  and  character  and  life  work 
in  England  and  America,  together  with  excerpts 
from    his   diary."      Cleveland 

See  also  Huckel's  "Dreamer  of  dreams,"  19 16, 
Crowell,  $1.25,  a  re-telling  of  Penn's  life  story, 
based  on  a  supposed  journal  kept  by  Gulielma 
Springett,  who  became  his  wife  and  accom- 
panied  him    to    America 

Pennell,  Mrs  Elizabeth  (Robins) 

Nights:  Rome,  Venice  in  the  aesthetic 
eighties;  London,  Paris  in  the  fighting 
nineties,  il    '16  Lippincott  $3  92 

"Pleasant  reminiscences  of  evenings  spent  in 
good  talk  and  of  the  friends  who  did  the  talk- 
ing, among  them  Whistler,  Henley,  Aubrey 
Beardsley,  Henry  Harland,  Phil  May  and  R.  A. 
M.    Stevenson."      Cleveland 

Sepia  illustrations  from  Joseph  Pennell's 
etchings,  and  works  of  other  artists 

Pepys,  Samuel 

Diary.     2v     (Everyman's    lib.)       Dutton 

$1.40;  lib.  binding  $1.80  92 

Diary    and    correspondence;    with    a    life 

and    notes    by    Richard,    Lord    Brooks. 

(Bohn's  hist,  lib.)  4v  '89-'97  Macmillan 

$1.75  ea  92 

"An  intimate  and  frank  narrative  of  a  period 
of  the  writer's  own  life  covering  nine  and  a 
half  years  from  January  1660  to  May  1669." 
Pratt  alcove 

"Perpetually  the  most  amusing  of  gossips  and 
of  all  who  have  gossiped  about  themselves,  the 
only  one  who  tells  the  truth.  (Andrew  Lang) 
A.  L.  A. 

"No  work  of  the  kind  in  the  world's  liter- 
ature can  be  compared  to  Pepys'  'Diary'  .  .  . 
It  paints  the  official  and  private  circles  in  which 
the  author  moved,  the  course  of  public  affairs, 
the  humours  of  social  life,  with  no  less  truth 
and  frankness  than  it  reveals  the  author  him- 
self. It  is  by  far  the  most  valuable  document 
extant  for  the  understanding  of  the  times;  bet- 
ter than  all  the  histories  and  all  the  comedies. 
It  seems  an  unequalled  piece  of  irony  that  the 
supreme  piece  of  workmanship  in  its  way  and 
the  most  lucid  mirror  of  its  age  should  be  the 
performance  of  an  ordinary  citizen  who  had  not 


50 


STANDARD    CATALOG 


Pepys,  Samuel — Continued 

the  least  idea  that  he  was  doing  anything  re- 
markable, who  expected  celebrity,  if  he  expected 
it  at  all,  from  his  official  tasks  and  scientific 
recreations;  who  shrouded  his  work  in  shorthand 
lest  the  world  should  profit  by  it;  and  who 
would  have  been  dismayed  beyond  measure  if 
he  had  foreseen  that  it  would  be  published  after 
his   death."      (Richard   Garnett)    Pittsburgh 

— Same;  completely  transcribed  b^r  the 
late  Rev.  Mynors  Bright,  from  the 
shorthand  manuscript  in  the  Pepvsian 
library;  ed.  with  additions,  by  H.  B. 
Wheatley.  9v  '94-'99  Macmillan  $1.75 
ea  92 

Red  letter  days  of  Samuel  Pepys;  ed.  by 
E.  F.  Allen.    '10  Sturgis  $1.25  92 

"Contains  well  chosen  selections  from  the 
diary,  grouped  under  subjects.  Will  interest 
the  readers  who  would  not  care  for  the  entire 
diary."      A.    L.   A.   sup. 

Lubbock,  Percy.     Samuel   Pepys.    (Liter- 
ary lives)  il  '09  Scribner  $1.25  92 
"Well   constructed,    vivacious    account   by    the 
sometime    Pepysian    librarian    of    Magdalene   col- 
lege,  Oxford."     A.  L.  A.  sup. 

Perry,  Matthew  Calbraith 

Griffis,  W.  E.  Matthew  Calbraith  Perry. 
'87  Houghton  $2.50  92 

"American  naval  officer  (1794-1858)  who 
commanded  the  expedition  to  Japan,  1852-54, 
during  which  he  concluded  the  treaty  opening 
Japan   to   American   commerce."      Pittsburgh 

Pershing,  John  Joseph 

Tomlinson,  E.  T.  Story  of  General 
Pershing.     '19  Appleton  $1.50  92 

"The  purpose  of  the  writer  of  this  little  book 
is  merely  to  tell  the  story  in  outline  of  the 
career  of  the  commander  of  the  American  ex- 
peditionary forces  in  France.  .  .  .  The  com- 
plete biography  and  the  analysis  of  General 
Pershing's  personality  and  military  career  he 
leaves  to  later  writers."     Preface 

Petrarch 

Robinson,  J.  H.,  and  Rolfe,  H.  W.  Pe- 
trarch, the  first  modern  scholar  and 
man  of  letters.  2d  ed  rev  and  enl  '14 
Putnam  $2  92 

"A  selection  from  his  correspondence  with 
Boccaccio  and  other  friends,  designed  to  illus- 
trate the  beginnings  of  the  renaissance;  trans- 
lated from  the  original  Latin,  with  historical 
introduction   and   notes."      Subtitle 

Phillips,  Wendell 

Martyn,  Carlos.  Wendell  Phillips;  the 
agitator.  (American  reformers)  '90 
Funk   $1.50  92 

"Appendix  contains  three  of  the  orator's 
masterpieces,  never  before  published  in  book 
form:  Lost  arts;  Daniel  O'Connell;  Scholar  in 
a  republic."     Subtitle 

Pieshkov,  Alexiei  Maximovitch.  See  Gorky, 

Maxim,  pseud. 
Pitt,  William,  1st  earl  of  Chatham 

Rosebery,  A.  P.  P.  Lord  Chatham,  his 
early  life  and  connections.  '10  Harper 
$3  92 

"Brilliant  study  of  Pitt's  personality  and 
political  activities  from  early  boyhood  to  1756. 
A  distinct  contribution  to  the  political  history 
of  the  period."      A.   L.  A.   sup. 

— Pitt.  (Twelve  English  statesmen)  '92 
Macmillan  80c  92 

Williams,  Basil.  Life  of  William  Pitt.  2v 
il  maps  '14  Longmans  $3.50  92 

List  of  speeches  delivered  by  William  Pitt, 
V2,  P335-5i;   Bibliography,  V2,  P352-68 


The  only  complete  and  adequate  biography  in 
English,  as  Lord  Rosebery's  admirable  work 
ended  before  Pitt's  first  ministry 

"Mr  Williams  has  equipped  himself  for  his 
task  by  years  of  study,  with  the  result  that  we 
have  at  last  a  really  worthy  biography  of  an 
English  writer  .  .  .  The  most  original  work 
in  the  book  is  that  which  throws  light  on  Pitt's 
actual  methods  as  the  greatest  of  war  ministers, 
on  the  general  conditions  of  public  offices  in  the 
eighteenth  century,  and  on  the  private  and  home 
life  of  Chatham.  .  .  .  Mr  Williams  is  in  fact 
a  better  biographer  than  historian,  and  when 
Pitt's  life  becomes  a  part  of  world  politics,  the 
narrative  occasionally  loses  itself  in  details. 
The  net  effect  ...  is  not  to  ...  paint  a 
new  picture  of  Chatham,  but  rather  to  fill  in 
the  details  of  the  outline  which  Macaulay  drew 
for  all  time."      (Saturday  rev.,   1913)   Pittsburgh 

Pitt,  William,  the  younger 

Rose,  J.  H.  William  Pitt  and  the  national 
revival.    '11   Macmillan  $3  92 

"This  and  the  later  volume,  'William  Pitt  and 
the  great  war'  (Macmillan,  191 1)  form  a  bril- 
liant and  scholarly  biography  of  Pitt  the 
Younger,  in  which  much  recently  accessible 
material  has  been  used  to  give  great  fulness  to 
the   later  period  of  his   life."      A.   L.  A.   sup. 

Only   imported   to   order 

Poe,  Edgar  Allan 

Woodberry,  G.  E.  Edgar  Allan  Poe. 
(American  men  of  letters)  '85  Hough- 
ton $1.35  92 

— Same.  (Riverside  popular  biographies) 
'14  Houghton  75c;  school  ed  60c         92 

Woodberry,  G.  E.  Life  of  Edgar  Allan 
Poe;  including  his  correspondence  with 
men  of  letters.  2v  '09  Houghton  $5  92 
"Authoritative  and  impartial  biography, 
greatly  enlarged  from  that  by  same  author  in 
American  men  of  letters  series,  (1885)  by  in- 
clusion of  recently  discovered  facts  and  many 
letters.  Bibliography,  notes,  portraits,  illustra- 
tions and  facsimiles."     N.Y.  state  lib. 

Pope,  Alexander 

Stephen,    Sir    Leslie.      Alexander      Pope. 
(English   men   of  letters)     '80   Macmil- 
lan 60c  92 
"Admirable    monograph,     by    a    great    critic." 
A.  L.  A. 

Popp,  Adelheid 

Autobiography  of  a  working  woman;  tr. 
by  E.   C.  Harvey,  il    '12  Browne  $1.25 

92 

"The  author  is  an  Austrian  socialist,  a  writer, 
lecturer  and  worker  for  the  cause,  who  has 
risen  from  the  lowest  ranks  of  labor.  Her 
schooling  ended  and  her  working  life  began  at 
the  age  of  ten."     Book  rev.  digest 

"No  better  basis  for  imagining  what  it  is 
that  the  very  poor  have  to  contend  with,  hour 
by  hour,  can  be  found  than  the  'Autobiography 
of  a  working  woman.'  The  book  shows  no 
dogmatism  and  presents  no  minute  facts  which 
might  tire  a  casual  reader,  but  it  is  instinct 
with  truth,  and  it  presents  that  bitter  sordidness 
which  has  been  the  destruction  of  countless 
souls  less  strong  than  that  unconsciously  de- 
picted by  its  author."     Dial  55:54 

Porter,  Sydney.  See  Henry,   O.,  pseud. 

Pumpelly,  Raphael 

My  reminiscences.  2v  il  maps  '18  Holt 
$7.50  92 

"The  detailed  autobiography  of  a  noted  geol- 
ogist and  mining  expert  whose  researches  took 
him  into  all  parts  of  the  globe  and  brought  him 
into  contact  with  many  kinds  of  people.  His 
friends  were  largely  among  well  known  scholars 
and  writers,  his  adventures  most  unusual  and 
interesting."     A.   L.   A.  bkl. 


BIOGRAPHY— Individual 


51 


Putnam,  George  Haven 

Memories  of  a  publisher,  1865-1915.  '15 
Putnam  $2.50  92 

"Made  up  of  recollections  of  Mr  Putnam's 
personal  life  and  friendships,  an  account  of  the 
long  and  finally  successful  fight  for  interna- 
tional copyright,  a  record  of  his  public  services 
in  the  interests  of  civil  service  and  other  re- 
forms, and  ...  a  history  of  the  Putnam  pub- 
lishing activities."      Book   rev.   digest 

In  an  appendix  are  the  letters  which  he  has 
written  to  the  American  and  English  press  con- 
cerning the   present   war 

This  book,  with  the  author's  "Memories  of 
my  youth"  and  "Memories  of  George  Palmer 
Putnam"  gives  a  history  of  the  publishing 
house  of  Putnam  to  1915 
Putnam,  G.  H.  George  Palmer  Putnam; 
a  memoir.  '12  Putnam  $2.50  92 

"The  life  of  the  founder  of  the  publishing 
house  of  G.  P.  Putnam's  sons.  Not  a  personal 
biography  so  much  as  the  story  of  Mr  Putnam's 
business  career  and  the  development  of  a  great 
American  publishing  concern.  It  gives  a  very 
interesting  view  of  the  growth  of  American  lit- 
erature in  the  middle  years  of  the  nineteenth 
century  with  intimate  glimpses  of  Irving, 
Cooper,  Hawthorne,  Poe,  Bayard  Taylor  and 
other  lesser  lights."      Pratt  quarterly 

Putnam,  Israel 

Livingston,  W.  F.  Israel  Putnam. 
(American  men  of  energy)  '01  Putnam 
$1.50  92 

Bibliography,   pref.  pn-18 

"He  has  had  access  to  some  original  sources 
of  information  and  presents  a  lively  full  length 
portrait  of  the  bluff  and  energetic  major-gen- 
eral."     (Athenaeum)    A.    L.   A. 

Ravage,  Marcus  Eli 
An  American  in  the  making.    '17  Harper 
$1.50  92 

"A  Roumanian  immigrant  follows  the  process 
of  his  Americanization  from  his  days  as  pedlar 
and  sweat  shop  worker  on  the  New  York  East 
side  thru  his  years  in  Missouri  college.  De- 
lightfully written  and  good  humoredly  critical 
of  himself  and  America."      N.Y.   lib. 

Redesdale,     Algernon    Bertram     Freeman- 
Mitford,  1st  baron 
Memories.  2v  il  '16  Dutton  $15  92 

"The  cream  of  autobiography.  It  is  full  of 
stories  and  characteristic  glimpses  as  an  egg  is 
full  of  meat.  It  would  be  hard  to  cite  a  work 
which  is  more  likely  to  rank  among  the  per- 
manent and  authentic  memorials  of  the  Vic- 
torian age."  J.  P.  Collins  in  Boston  Tran- 
script,   December    11,    1915 

"Very  few  men  .  .  .  could  give  so  pleasant 
and  profitable  an  account  of  their  seventy-eight 
years  as  Lord  Redesdale  has  done.  As  diplo- 
matist, permanent  official,  member  of  Parlia- 
ment, author  and  peer,  his  life  has  been  full, 
varied  and  useful,  and  obviously  very  happy. 
.  ._  .  The  pages  give  insight  into  events  of  inter- 
national importance,  such  as  the  taking  of 
Schleswig-Holstein  by  Germany  in  the  '6o's,  the 
birth  of  the  new  Japan  in  1868,  etc.  They  are 
lightened  by  anecdotes  of  Swinburne  as  an 
Eton  schoolboy,  of  Disraeli,  Gladstone  and  other 
statesmen,  of  the  Carlyles  and  many  persons  of 
importance,  including  the  Czar  Alexander  II, 
the  German  emperor,  and  King  Edward  VII." 
Book   rev.    digest 

Reed,  Thomas  Brackett 

McCall,  S.  W.  Life  of  Thomas  Brackett 
Reed,  il  '14  Houghton  $3.50  92 

"This  biography  of  Speaker  Reed  by  a  friend 
and  fellow  Congressman,  is  primarily  a  study  of 
his  personality,  recording  public  questions  of  his 
day  in  the  light  of  his  action  upon  them,  and 
presenting  his  views  as  far  as  possible  in  the 
words  of  his  speeches,  letters  and  other  writ- 
ings."     Cleveland 


Revere,  Paul 

Moses,  Belle.  Paul  Revere,  the  torch 
bearer  of  the  Revolution,  il  '16  Apple- 
ton  $1.35  92 
"An  excellent  biography  giving  not  only  a 
full  account  of  Revere's  famous  ride,  but  cover- 
ing the  many  varied  activities  in  which  this 
sturdy  Huguenot  engaged  during  his  long  life- 
time."     Cleveland 

Rhodes,  Cecil  John 

Fuller,  Sir  T.  E.  Right  Honorable  Cecil 
John  Rhodes;  a  monograph  and  remin- 
iscence, il  '10  Longmans  $1.60  92 
"Not  a  complete  biography,  but  a  lifelike 
portrait  of  the  statesman  in  his  public  and  pri- 
vate South  African  career,  doing  full  justice  to 
greatness  but  not  failing  to  notice  faults  of 
character  and  policy;  by  a  friend  intimately 
associated  for  many  years  with  Rhodes'  political 
and  social  life.  Two  portraits  and  eleven  ex- 
cellent  halftones. 

'The  life  and  times  of  the  Right  Honorable 
Cecil  John  Rhodes,  1853-1902,'  by  Sir  Lewis 
Mitchell,  2v,  Kennerley,  $7.50,  may  be  called 
the  authorized  biography.  Author  has  had  ac- 
cess to  private  and  official  papers,  and  has  at- 
tempted a  fair  and  complete  narrative  of  events 
and  interpretation  of  aims  and  ideals."  N.Y. 
state  lib. 

Richards,   Caroline    Cowles.      See    Clarke, 

C.  C.  R. 

Richards,   Mrs  Ellen  Henrietta    (Swallow) 

Hunt,  C.  L.     Life  of  Ellen  H.  Richards. 

(Conservation    ed.)    il    '18      whitcomb 

$1.25  92 

"Appreciative  biography  of  this  notable  pio- 
neer in  home  economics  (1842-1911),  and  other 
work  for  social  betterment,  for  many  years  in- 
structor in  sanitary  chemistry  at  the  Massa- 
chusetts Institute  of  technology."      Pittsburgh 

Richardson,  Samuel 

Dobson,  Austin.  Samuel  Richardson. 
(English  men  of  letters)  '02  Macmillan 
75c  92 

"Richardson  was  the  pioneer  of  a  new  move- 
ment; the  first  certified  practitioner  of  senti- 
ment; the  English  Columbus  of  the  analytical 
novel  of  ordinary  life."      (Author)   A.  L.  A. 

Richelieu,  Armand  Jean  du  Plessis,  cardinal 
de 

Perkins,  J.  B.     Richelieu  and  the  growth 
of   French   power.    (Heroes    of  the   na- 
tions)   1900    Putnam    $1.50  92 
Rihbany,  Abraham  Mitrie 
A  far  journey,  il   '14  Houghton  $2  92 

Appeared  in  an  abridged  form  in  the  Atlantic 
monthly,  VI12-13,  November   1913  to  April   1914 

"Experiences  of  a  native  Syrian  now  (19 14) 
pastor  of  the  Church  of  the  disciples  in  Boston. 
Mr  Rihbany  left  his  Syrian  village  to  find  in 
America  the  larger  opportunity  which  his  ambi- 
tion craved.  He  describes  graphically  the  prim- 
itive life  of  his  youth  and  his  later  wanderings 
in  New  York  city  and  in  the  Middle  West.  His 
record  is  a  grateful  tribute  to  the  free  institu- 
tions and  the  ideals  of  the  country  of  his  adop- 
tion."     Pittsburgh 

Riis,  Jacob  August 

Making  of  an  American,  new  ed  '16  Mac- 
millan $2.50  92 

Autobiography  of  the  reporter,  philanthropist 
and  reformer 

Riley,  James  Whitcomb 

Laughlin,  C.  E.  Reminiscences  of  James 
Whitcomb  Riley,  il  '16  Revell  75c      92 

"The  author,  a  novelist  and  formerly  an 
actress,  was  for  many  years  a  friend  and  de- 
voted admirer  of  Riley.  She  presents  an  at- 
tractive sketch,  with  many  illustrative  anecdotes. 


52 


STANDARD   CATALOG 


Riley,  James  Whitcomb — Continued 

Appeared  in  part  in  the  Ladies'  home  journal 
for    September,    1916."      Cleveland 

Robert  I,  king  of  Scotland 

Maxwell,  Sir  H.  E.  Robert  the  Bruce 
and  the  struggle  for  Scottish  inde- 
pendence. (Heroes  of  the  nations)  '97 
Putnam  $1.50  92 

Roberts,  Frederick  Sleigh  Roberts,  1st  earl 
Forrest,   Sir  G.  W.     Life  of  Lord   Rob- 
erts, il    '14  Stokes  $5  92 

"Authoritative  story  of  Lord  Roberts'  mil- 
itary career,  particularly  of  his  services  in  the 
Indian  mutiny,  the  second  Afghan  war,  and  the 
Boer  war.  The  facts,  drawn  largely  from  his 
own  dispatches,  have  been  set  down  often  in  his 
own  words  without  criticism  or  comment  and  in 
full  detail,  to  enable  the  reader  to  form  his  own 
judgment  of  his  character  as  a  soldier." 
A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

Menpes,  Mortimer.     Lord  Roberts.    (Por- 
trait biographies)  '15  Macmillan  75c   92 
Only  imported  to  order 

Robespierre,  Maximilien  Marie  Isidore 
Belloc,   Hilaire.     Robespierre.    '01    Scrib- 
ner   $2.50  92 

"Attention  thruout  concentrated  on  Robes- 
pierre, but  the  background  vividly  pictured." 
(Am.   acad.,    1902)   A.  L.  A. 

Roland  de  la  Platiere,  Mme  Manon  Jeanne 
Phlipon 

Tarbell,  I.  M.  Madame  Roland.  '96  Mac- 
millan $1.50  92 

Bibliography   p3 13-19 

"Shows  good  judgment  and  a  fair  spirit, 
without  disposition  to  eulogy.  Contributes  some 
new  material."     (N.Y.   state  lib.)   A.   L.  A. 

See  also  the  life  by  Mrs  L.  H.  R.  Pope-Hen- 
nessy,    19 18,    Dodd,    $5 

Romanes,  George  John 

Romanes,  Mrs  E.  D.     Life  and  letters  of 
G.  J.   Romanes.  '96  Longmans  $2       92 
British  naturalist  (1848-94) 

The  relations  of  Darwin  and  Romanes  were 
very  intimate 

Roosevelt,  Theodore 

Autobiography,  il  '13  Macmillan  $2.50  92 
"  'With  the  exceptions  of  a  few  chapters  of 
a  personal  character,  the  narrative  deals  chiefly 
with  politics  and  policies  as  exemplified  in  the 
writer's  public  life  and  more  or  less  connected 
with   his   administrative   acts.'    (Dial) 

The  chapters  on  the  'Vigor  of  life'  and  'Cow- 
boy land'  appeared  in  his  'Ranch  life.'  "  Cleve- 
land 

Leupp,  F.  E.  The  man  Roosevelt;  a 
portrait  sketch.  (Appleton's  historical 
lives  ser.)    '04  Appleton  $1.35  92 

"Devoted  chiefly  to  Roosevelt's  public  life  to 
1904,  enlivened  by  many  anecdotes  and  written 
by  a  trained  but  uncritical  observer,  who  has 
long  been  the  ex-president's  intimate  friend." 
A.   L.   A.   sup. 

Lewis,  W.  D.  Life  of  Theodore  Roose- 
velt,   il  '19  Winston   $2.25  92 

Dr  Lewis,  former  Dean  of  the  Law  school, 
University  of  Pennsylvania,  and  a  close  friend 
of  Theodore  Roosevelt,  tells  us  that  in  writing 
this  book  he  has  turned  more  often  to  Roose- 
velt's books  and  articles  than  to  any  other  source 
of  information.  Chapter  twenty-five,  "Roosevelt 
the  naturalist"  was  written  by  Dr  Witmer 
Stone,  Curator  of  the  Philadelphia  academy  of 
natural  science,  and  in  writing  chapter  twenty- 
eight,  "Books  and  speeches",  the  author  had  the 
invaluable  help  of  C.  Wharton  Stork,  author  and 
critic,  and  Roger  B.  Merriman,  Assistant  pro- 
fessor of  history  at  Harvard  university.  The 
introduction    (i6p)    is   by  William   Howard  Taft. 

Chronology,  P473-4 


Morgan,  James.  Theodore  Roosevelt, 
the  boy  and  the  man.  new  ed  il  '19 
Macmillan  $1.50  92 

"A  new  edition  of  the  biography  that  first 
appeared  in  1907,  with  additional  chapters  pre- 
pared since  the  president's  death.  ...  Mr 
Morgan  has  the  rare  power  of  seizing  the 
dramatic  events  of  the  career  of  his  subject." 
Boston  Transcript,  April   5,    19 19 

Riis,  J.  A.  Theodore  Roosevelt,  the  citi- 
zen. '04  Macmillan  $2  92 
Books  by  Theodore  Roosevelt,  P457-64 

—Same.  (Standard  lib.)  '12  Macmillan 
60c  92 

Appeared  in  the  Outlook,  V75-76,  December 
5,    1903   to  March    12,    1904 

"The  titles  of  this  book  and  of  Mr  Leupp's 
The  man  Roosevelt'  might  well  be  exchanged 
since  Mr  Riis  deals  more  with  the  personal 
qualities  of  the  president,  and  Mr  Leupp  more 
with  his  public  acts.  Both  books  are  eulogistic, 
particularly   Mr   Riis'."      Pittsburgh 

Street,  Julian.  The  most  interesting 
American,  il  '15  Century  50c  92 

_  "Theodore  Roosevelt  the  man  is  graphically 
pictured  in  an  interview  in  which  his  opinions 
on  preparedness,  his  views  on  the  [Wilson]  ad- 
ministration, and  his  summing  up  of  America's 
duty  in  the  world  of  nations  are  plainly  stated. 
An  appendix  contains  extracts  from  his  speeches 
and  writings."      Book  rev.   digest 

Washburn,  C.  G.  Theodore  Roosevelt; 
the  logic  of  his  career,  il  '16  Houghton 
$1.65  B     92 

"  'I  have  known  Theodore  Roosevelt  since  we 
entered  Harvard  together  in  the  autumn  of 
1876,'  says  the  author.  'Thru  all  these  years  I 
have  had  very  definite  views  of  his  character 
which  I  have  never  seen  any  occasion  to 
change.  .  .  .  This  is  in  no  sense  a  history  or 
even  a  finished  sketch  of  his  life.  It  is  a  record 
of  my  personal  impressions,  fortified  by  such 
facts  as  would  seem  to  justify  my  conclusions.' 
Some  of  these  conclusions  are  that  Roosevelt 
has  never  been  a  'politician,'  that  his  views  have 
always  been  carefully  considered  before  they 
found  expression,  and  that  in  the  campaign  of 
19 12  he  was  not  moved  by  personal  ambition." 
N.Y.  branch  lib.  news 

See  also  Hagedorn's  "Boy's  life  of  Roosevelt", 
1918,  Harper,  $1.25,  which  will  interest  many 
adults 

Ross,  Mrs  Jane  Ann  (Duff-Gordon) 

Fourth  generation;  reminiscences,  il  '12 
Scribner  $3.50  92 

"These  delightful  reminiscences  follow  'Three 
generations  of  English  women'  (first  published 
in  1888)  which  concerned  Mrs  Ross'  great- 
grandmother,  grandmother  and  mother.  Mrs 
Ross'  own  life  has  been  closely  linked  in  its 
friendships  with  theirs  and  her  pages  are  full  of 
interesting  recollections  and  letters  of  the  dis- 
tinguished people  with  whom  she  has  been  as- 
sociated,— Thackeray,  Tennyson,  Carlyle,  Mere- 
dith, Leighton,  Watts  and  many  others.  She 
writes  entertainingly  too,  of  Egypt  in  the  '6o's, 
of  later  life  in  Italy  and  recent  English  years 
and  friends.  The  appropriate  illustrations  are 
largely  reproductions  from  photographs." 
A.   L.  A.  bkl. 

Rousseau,  Jean  Jacques 

Hudson,  W.  H.  Rousseau  and  natural- 
ism in  life  and  thought.  (World's  epoch 
makers)   '03   Scribner  $1.50  _  92 

"The  lesser  half  of  the  book  is  a  sufficient 
biographical  sketch;  the  remainder  is  devoted  to 
a  brief  analytical  examination  of  Rousseau's 
works  and  a  suggestion  of  his  influence  upon 
his  contemporaries  and  posterity  in  thought  and 
deed."      (Nation)    Pratt  quarterly 

See  also  John  Morley's  "Rousseau",  2v,  189 1, 
Macmillan,   $4 


BIOGRAPHY— Individual 


53 


Roy,  Jean 

Fields  of  the  fatherless.    '18  Doran  $1.75 

92 

Autobiography  of  a  poor  English  working  girl 
"Her  story  will  win  deep  sympathy.  There 
are  occasional  welcome  touches  of  humor  in  sit- 
uations that  are  for  the  most  part  repellent 
though  nevertheless  of  absorbing  human  inter- 
est."     Outlook    121:668 

"Her  descriptions  of  her  life  as  a  laundress, 
sweatshop  worker  and  domestic  servant  throw 
more  light  on  these  subjects  from  the  stand- 
point of  the  parties  most  concerned  than  most 
works  either  of  sociology  or  fiction."  Spring- 
field Republican,    19 19 

Ruskin,  John 

Letters  to  Charles  Eliot  Norton;  ed.  by 
C.  E.  Norton.  2v  il  '04  Houghton  $5 

92 

"Letters  extending  from  the  beginning  of  a 
long  and  close  friendship  in  1855  down  to  1887. 
Singularly  unrestrained  and  self-revealing,  they 
form  a  most  interesting  record  of  Ruskin's 
moods,  opinions  and  mental  conditions,  besides 
giving  glimpses  of  his  work  and  of  the  places 
that  he  loved."      Pittsburgh 

"Record  of  the  perplexities  of  a  great  and 
generous  soul,  the  troubles  of  a  tender  heart, 
the  spendthrift  use  and  at  last  the  failure  of  ex- 
ceptional powers."  (C.  E.  Norton)  A.  L.  A. 
sup. 

Praeterita.  new  ed  3v  '15  Allen  2s  6d  ea 

92 

"No  autobiographer  surpasses  him  in  fresh- 
ness and  fulness  of  memory,  nor  in  the  power 
of  giving  interest  to  the  apparently  common- 
place. There  is  an  even  remarkable  absence  of 
striking  incident,  but  somehow  or  other  the  story 
fascinates.  .  .  .  The  book  should  be  acceptable 
even  to  those  to  whom  his  social  and  artistic 
dogmas  have  ceased  to  have  much  significance." 
(Leslie    Stephen)    Pittsburgh 

Benson,  A.  C.  Ruskin;  a  study  in  per- 
sonality. '11   Putnam  $1.50  92 

"Sympathetic,  yet  dispassionate  and  critical 
interpretation  of  the  man  and  his  genius.  As  a 
biography  compares  favorably  with  Harrison. 
In  the  fuller  life  by  Cook,  copious  use  has  been 
made  of  well  chosen  material  from  Ruskin's  let- 
ters, diaries  and  notebooks,  in  giving  a  detailed 
account  of  every  phase  of  his  life."  A.  L.  A. 
sup. 

Cook,  E.  T.  Life  of  John  Ruskin.  2v  il 
'11   Macmillan  $7  92 

"A  definite  authorized  biography  founded  on 
Ruskin's  diary  and  letters,  from  which  it  quotes 
copiously,  treating  of  his  life,  work  and  char- 
acter."     N.Y.    state   lib. 

Harrison,  Frederic.  John  Ruskin.  (Eng- 
lish men  of  letters)  '02  Macmillan 
75c  92 

"Author  a  friend  of  Ruskin  since  i860. 
Shows  his  predominance  in  the  esthetic  study 
of  nature  and  art.  as  an  influence  rather  than  as 
an   authority."     (Johnston)   A.   L.  A. 

Russell,  George  William   (A.  E.) 

Figgis,  Darrell.  A.  E.  (Irishmen  of  to- 
day) '16  Dodd  $1  92 

"The  information  given  about  the  condition 
of  Irish  country  life  ...  is  excellently  set 
forth  and  of  value  to  the  student  of  Irish  af- 
fairs."     (Outlook    [London])    A.   L.   A.  bkl. 

"An  eloquent  appreciation  of  the  many  sided 
activities  of  Mr  George  Russell — A.  E. — one  of 
the  most  interesting  and  helpful  figures  in  the 
Ireland  of  today, — ex-draper's  assistant,  poet, 
painter  and  mystic,  cooperative  missioner,  or- 
ganizer and  editor."   (Spectator)   St.  Louis 

Savonarola,  Girolamo 

Villari,  Pasquale.  Life  and  times  of  Giro- 


lamo Savonarola;  tr.  by  Linda  Villari. 
new  lib  ed  '01  Scribner  $3  92 

"The  work  of  an  eminent  scholar,  who  has 
made  a  special  study  of  the  period  of  the  renais- 
sance. Founded  on  the  results  of  much  original 
research,  not  only  in  the  archives  of  the  gov- 
ernment, but  also  among  papers  preserved  by 
the  families  of  the  old  Italian  nobility."  (C.  K. 
Adams)  Pittsburgh 

Schaff,  Morris 

Spirit  of  Old  West  Point,  1858-1862.  il  '07 
Houghton  $3.50  92 

"Idealized  but  essentially  truthful  estimate  of 
the  molding  influences  which  transform  crude  boys 
into  'soldiers  and  gentlemen.'  Deals  in  happiest 
reminiscent  vein  with  the  years  1858-1862  and 
follows  northern  and  southern  classmates  into 
the  Civil  war."    (N.Y.  state  lib.)  A.   L.  A.  sup. 

Schiller,    Johann   Christoph   Friedrich   von 
Carlyle,      Thomas.      Life      of      Friedrich 
Schiller;    comprehending    an    examina- 
tion of  his  works.    (Centenary  ed.)   '01 
Scribner  $1.75  « 

"Edited  with  an  introduction  by  H.  D.  Traill. 
Goethe's  introduction  to  German  translation  of 
this  life  of  Schiller,  with  reprints  of  German 
title-pages,  P329-35-"     A.  L.  A. 

"  'The  work,  published  complete  in  1825  is 
termed  by  the  author  himself  'an  insignificant 
book.'  It  might  not  have  lived  without  his  name, 
but  has  the  merit  of  true  artistic  proportion,  and 
is  a  sound  piece  of  work.'  (Garnett's  Life  of 
Thomas  Carlyle)  'It  was  based  on  very  imper- 
fect information,  but  was  an  inspiring  work  of 
genius  nevertheless.  It  is  now  more  valuable  as 
a  Carlyle  document  than  as  a  Schiller  docu- 
ment.' "  (Thomas'  Life  and  works  of  Schiller) 
Pittsburgh 
Thomas,  Calvin.  Life  and  works  of  Fried- 
rich Schiller.  '01  Holt  $1.75  92 

"A  large  part  of  the  book  is  devoted  to  a 
study  and  criticism  of  Schiller's  works.  'A  book 
that  will  compare  favorably,  in  point  of  readable- 
ness  and  impartiality  with  the  best  that  has  ever 
been  written  upon  the  subject.'  "  (Atlantic 
monthly,  1902)  Pittsburgh 

Survey  of  Schiller  literature,  P465-73 

Schopenhauer,  Arthur 
Wallace,  William.  Life  of  Arthur  Schop- 
enhauer.    (Great  writers)   '90  Scribner 
$1.25  92 

"Bibliography,    10  pref.  p. 

Clear  account  of  life,  with  some  notice  of  his 
philosophy.  Certain  peculiarities  in  life  and 
character  make  it  read  like  a  mixture  of  tragedy 
and  comedy."      (Science  16:285)   A.  L.  A. 

Schurz,  Carl 

Reminiscences.  3v  il  map  '07-'08  Double- 
day  $9  .    ?2 

"Schurz  as  German  student  and  revolutionist 
(1848),  American  diplomat,  Union  general  and 
statesman.  Closes  in  1869  with  the  beginning  of 
his  career  in  the  senate.  Later  life  summarized 
by  Frederick  Bartlett  and  W.  A.  Dunning.  Mir- 
rors a  character  distinguished  for  keen  judgment, 
zest  in  affairs  and  persistent  idealism."  A.  L.  A. 
sup. 

Schuyler,  Mrs  Catherine  (Van  Rensselaer) 

Humphreys,  M.  G.  Catherine  Schuyler. 
(Women  of  colonial  and  revolutionary 
times)  '97  Scribner  $1.50  92 

"Catherine  Van  Rensselaer,  wife  of  General 
Philip  Schuyler.  Describes  Dutch  colonial  life 
and  society  of  revolutionary  period  in  Albany." 
(N.Y.  state  lib.)   A.  L.  A. 

Scott,  Sir  Walter,  bart. 

Journal,  from  the   orginal  manuscript  at 

Abbotsford.   '91    Harper  $7.50;   popular 

ed  $2.50  92 

See  also  "Familiar  letters,"  2V,  1894,  Hough- 
ton, $7-50 

"The  letters   and  journal   deepen  the  reader  s 


54 


STANDARD    CATALOG 


Scott,  Sir  Walter,  bart. — Continued 

love  and  respect  for  the  man  who  penned  them." 
(Leypoldt  &  lies)    A.   L.  A. 
November  1825-April  1832 

Hutton,  R.  H.  Sir  Walter  Scott.  (English 
men  of  letters)  [78]  Macmillan  60c     92 

Lang,  Andrew.  Sir  Walter  Scott.  (Liter- 
ary lives)  il  '06  Scribner  $1.25  92 
"Tho  Lang  modestly  disclaims  doing  more 
than  compress  Lockhart's  great  book  into  small 
space,  Scott's  admirers  will  find  much  that  is 
new  and  more  that  is  freshly  put  in  this  biogra- 
phy."  (Academy)   A.   L.  A.  sup. 

Lockhart,  J.  G.  Life  of  Sir  Walter  Scott; 
abridged  and  newly  ed.,  with  notes  etc. 
by  J.   M.    Sloan.    (Lib.   of  standard  bi- 
ography)  '04  Macmillan  $1.40  92 
Abridgment  of  Lockhart's  "Memoirs" 

Lockhart,  J.  G.  Memoirs  of  Sir  Walter 
Scott.  5v  (Lib.  of  English  classics)  '14 
Macmillan  $10  92. 

"It  stands  with  BoswelPs  'Johnson'  as  one  of 
the  two  greatest  biographies  in  the  English  lan- 
guage. Written  by  his  son-in-law,  it  is  the 
authoritative  life  of  Scott.  Tho  it  is  an  exten- 
sive work,  it  is  very  readable  and  illuminating, 
containing  Scott's  own  delightful  journals  and 
letters  and  the  diary  of  his  later  troubled  years." 
Pratt   alcove 

"The   most   important   biography   of   the   reign 
of  Queen  Victoria."  (Shorter)  A.  L.  A. 
— Same;  ed.  by  S.  M.  Francis.  5v  (Cam- 
bridge ed.)   '02  Houghton  $12  92 

Biographic  sketch  of  Lockhart,  vi,  pref.  P13- 
36 

Maccunn,  F.  A.  Sir  Walter  Scott's 
friends,  il  '10  Lane  $3.50  92 

_  "An  entertaining  volume,  giving  an  intimate 
picture  of  Scott's  circle  and  many  sidelights  on 
the  sources  of  much  of  the  matter  in  the  novels 
and  poems."   A.   L.   A.   sup. 

Saintsbury,  George.  Sir  Walter  Scott. 
(Famous  Scots  ser.)  '97  Oliphant  Is  92 

"The  first  short  biography  of  Scott  which  has 
been  written  since  the  publication  of  new  ma- 
terial during  the  last  few  years.  'His  most  con- 
spicuous merits  are  generosity  of  criticism  and 
a  judgment  sober  and  generally  sane  .  .  .  The 
literacy  criticism  is  the  best  part  of  the  book, 
yet  there  are  some  judgments  that  provoke  dis- 
sent."   (Athenaeum,    1897)    Pittsburgh 

C.  S.  Olcott's  "Country  of  Sir  Walter  Scott," 
1913.  Houghton,  $3.50,  contains  two  biographical 
chapters,  but  its  chief  value  lies  in  the  60  photo- 
graphs of  places  mentioned  in  Scott's  works 

Semmes,  Raphael 

Meriwether,  Colyer.  Raphael  Semmes. 
(American  crisis  biographies)  il  '13 
Jacobs  $1.50  92 

"Devoted  chiefly  to  Semmes'  career  as  com- 
mander of  the  Sumter  and  Alabama  in  the  Civil 
war.  Besides  it  deals  with  his  service  in  the 
Mexican  war,  his  imprisonment  after  the  Civil 
war  and  his  subsequent  life,  and  includes  a  full 
summary  of  his  views  on  secession."  A.  L.  A. 
bkl. 

"Mr  Meriwether  has  not,  apparently,  unearth- 
ed much  new  material,  and  has  naturally  re- 
lied a  good  deal  upon  Semmes'  own  books; 
'Service  afloat'  and  the  'Cruise  of  the  Alabama.' 
Of  the  available  printed  authorities,  however, 
he  has  made  industrious  use."     Nation  99:198 

Sevigne,  Marie  de  Rabutin  Chantal,  mar- 
quise de 
Best  letters  of  Madame  de  Sevigne;  ed 
by  E.  P.  Anderson.  4th  ed  (Laurel- 
crowned  letters)  '15  McClurg  $1  92 
"A  selection  of  the  beautiful  letters  written 
by  mother  to  daughter,  which  by  their  artistic 
quality  have  earned  a  high  place  in 
French   literature.      They   are    also    of   great    in- 


terest as  giving  an  insight  into  the  life  of  the 
period  in  France,  especially  the  inner  life  of  the 
court  circles  of  Louis  the  'Magnificent.'  "  Pratt 
alcove 

Seward,  Frederick  William 

Reminiscences  of  a  war-time  statesman 
and  diplomat,  1830-1915.  il  '16  Putnam 
$3.50  92 

"Mr  Seward  was  appointed  assistant  secretary 
when  his  father  became  secretary  of  state  in 
Lincoln's  cabinet.  He  also  sat  in  the  cabinets 
of  Presidents  Johnson  and  Hayes.  In  1867  he 
was  sent  on  a  special  mission  with  Admiral  Por- 
ter to  negotiate  the  West  Indian  treaties,  and 
he  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  purchase  of 
Alaska."   Pittsburgh 

"These  reminiscences  of  a  long  and  distin- 
guished career,  written  in  a  genial  manner,  are 
history  in  its  most  interesting  form."  N.Y.  state 
lib. 

Seward,  William  Henry 

Bancroft,  Frederic.  Life  of  William  H. 
Seward.  2v  1900  Harper  $5  92 

"Seward  was  governor  of  New  York  1838-42; 
United  States  senator,  1849-61;  and  secretary  of 
state  during  the  administrations  of  Lincoln  and 
Johnson."      Pittsburgh 

"Original  authorities  used,  including  Seward 
and  Bigelow  manuscripts.  Volume  two  a  posi- 
tive addition  to  our  historical  knowledge  of  its 
period."      (Nation  70:323)   A.  L.  A. 

Shaler,  Nathaniel  Southgate 

Autobiography;  with  a  supplementary 
memoir  by  his  wife,  il  '09  Houghton 
$4.50  92 

"Professor  Shaler's  work  and  eminence  as  a 
scientist,  his  share  in  the  advance  of  scientific 
education,  his  geological  investigations  and  other 
activities  are  presented,  but  are  subordinated  to 
the  frank,  inspiring  study  of  his  big,  intensely 
human  personality.  Of  additional  interest  are 
the  portrayal  of  Louis  Agassiz,  his  master  and 
friend,  and  the  picture  of  Civil  war  conditions 
in  Kentucky."     N.Y.  state  lib. 

"A  distinct  contribution  to  the  literature  of 
scientific  investigation  in  this  country."  A.  L.  A. 
sup. 

Sharp,  William 

Sharp,  Mrs.  E.  S.  William  Sharp  (Fiona 
Macleod);  a  memoir.  2v  '12  Duffield  $4 

92 

"Record  of  an  interesting  personality,  largely 
autobiographic,  being  from  letters  and  diaries 
with  quotations  from  his  books.  Criticisms  and 
comments  are  chiefly  from  letters  of  noted  men, 
Mrs  Sharp's  part  being  the  explanation  of  her 
husband's  'dual  nature'  and  its  literary  expres- 
sion in  the  works  of  Fiona  Macleod."  N.Y.  state 
lib. 

Shaw,  Anna  Howard 

Story  of  a  pioneer,  il  '15  Harper  $2  92 
"In  collaboration  with  Miss  Elizabeth  Jordan, 
the  president  [19 15]  of  the  National  American 
woman  suffrage  association  here  tells  the  inspir- 
ing story  of  her  life  from  her  strenuous  youth 
in  the  Michigan  'back  woods'  of  fifty  years  ago, 
thru  her  career  as  Methodist  preacher,  ordained 
minister,  teacher,  doctor,  lecturer  and  suffrage 
worker  and  leader.  Dr  Shaw  writes  as  she 
speaks,  straightforwardly  and  with  keen  obser- 
vation, humor  and  a  rich  fund  of  anecdote." 
Cleveland 

Shaw,  George  Bernard 

Chesterton,  G.  K.  George  Bernard  Shaw. 
'09  Lane  $1.50  92 

"Clever  chapters  on  Shaw  as  puritan,  pro- 
gressive, critic,  author  and  philosopher.  Little 
biographical  information,  but  sharp  criticism  of 
his  works,  tempered  by  eulogy."     A.  L.  A.  sup. 

Henderson,    Archibald.     George    Bernard 

Shaw,  his  life  and  works.     '18  Boni  & 

Live  right  $1.50  92 

"A    Boswellian    biography,    authorized    by    Mr 


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55 


Shaw,  George  Bernard — Continued 

Shaw,  who  has  contributed  to  it  what  he  calls 
'a  mass  of  unceremonious  and  irresponsible  auto- 
biography.' Despite  the  questionable  taste  of 
this  and  the  extreme  seriousness  of  the  biogra- 
pher, the  book  is  a  detailed  and  accurate  ac- 
count of  the  various  phases  of  art,  economics 
and  literature  in  which  Mr  Shaw  has  interested 
himself,  and  of  the  real  and  sincere  work  he 
has  done.  Thirty-three  illustrations  and  numer- 
ous facsimiles  in  the  text,  and  genealogical  chart 
of  the   Shaw  family."  A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

Sheehan,  Patrick  Augustine 

Heuser,  H.  J.  Canon  Sheehan  of  Doner- 
aile.   il   '17   Longmans  $3.50  92 

"The  biography  of  a  Catholic  priest  in  the 
south  of  Ireland  who  was  an  ardent  Irishman, 
a  well-liked  pastor  and  a  frequent  author.  Writ- 
ten by  a  fellow  priest  and  his  editor,  his  relig- 
ious activities  and  literary  merit  are  somewhat 
over-stressed,  so  that  the  book  will  hold  interest 
chiefly  for  Catholic  readers."  A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

"He  died  in  1913.  His  great  work  was  his 
interpretation  of  modern  Irish  life  thru  fiction. 
Intensely  devoted  to  his  native  land  and  full  of 
admiration  for  the  virtues  of  its  sturdy  sons, 
yet  keenly  critical  of  their  vices,  he  was  able  to 
write  stories  which  made  the  people  live  for 
their  readers."     Springfield  Republican 

Shelley,  Percy  Bysshe 

Dowden,   Edward.   Life  of  Percy  Bysshe 
Shelley.  2v  '86  Scribner  $6  92 

"He  has  condensed  the  old  Shelley  papers  by 
Hogg,  Peacock,  Trelawney,  Medwin,  Hunt,  Lady 
Shelley,  Stockdale,  and  other  lesser  writers,  the 
correspondence  and  diaries  of  Godwin,  and  the 
modern  investigations  of  Garnett,  Rossetti,  For- 
man,  and  Shelley  students  of  less  note;  and  he 
has  amplified  the  biography  constructed  from 
these  sources  by  manuscript  papers  of  the  Shel- 
ley family  and  others  .  .  .  The  work  is  neces- 
sarily henceforth  the  authority  for  the  facts  of 
Shelley's  career.  It  is  in  a  strict  sense  a  biog- 
raphy. It  deals  with  the  events  of  his  life,  and 
touches  only  incidentally  and  briefly  his  works 
and  genius,  his  contemporaries,  and  the  history 
of  his  times."   (Nation,   1887)  Pittsburgh 

See  also  Francis  Thompson's  "Essay  on  Shel- 
ley,"   1909,   Scribner,   $1.35 

Sheridan,  Philip  Henry 

Davies,  H.   E.    General   Sheridan.    (Great 
commanders)    '95    Appleton   $1.60.       92 
"By   an   appreciative   admirer   who   served   un- 
der  Sheridan.     Accurate  in   war  history."    (N.Y. 
state  lib.)   A.   L.  A. 

Sherman,  John 

Burton,  T.  E.  John  Sherman.   (American 
statesman)    '06   Houghton  $1.35  92 

"Brief,  scholarly,  readable  and  wholly  ad- 
mirable work,  relying  on  documentary  sources 
rather  than  on  Sherman's  hastily  written  and 
often  inaccurate  'Recollections.'  Follows  his 
part  in  the  anti-slavery  agitation,  reconstruction 
finance,  silver  legislation,  etc."  (N.Y.  state 
lib.)   A.   L.  A.  sup. 

Sherman,  William  Tecumseh 

Memoirs.  2v  2d  ed  '86  Appleton  $5.50  92 
"Admirably  clear  and  direct.  Free  use  ot 
his  letters,  orders  and  reports  gives  great  inter- 
est and  value.  Closes  with  great  review  in 
Washington,  but  concluding  chapter  on  military 
lessons  of  the  war  is  full  of  knowledge,  wisdom 
and  sound  sense."      (Atlantic   36:254)   A.   L.  A. 

Force,    M.    F.    General    Sherman.    (Great 
commanders)    '99    Appleton    $1.60      92 

"Latter  part  by  General  J.  D.  Cox.  Both 
authors  write  from  intimate  knowledge  of  facts 
and  hero."      (N.Y.  state  lib.)   A.  L.  A. 

Showerman,  Grant 

Country  child,  il  '17  Century  $1.75         92 
"The    style    of    the    narrative    becomes    mon- 
otonous,   but    the    chronicle    successfully    repro- 


duces the  homely,  kindly  life  in  a  Wisconsin 
farm  home  and  neighborhood,  thirty  or  forty 
years  ago."    Cleveland 

Country   chronicle,     il    '16   Century   $1.75 

92 

"Pictures  of  life  in  a  Wisconsin  village,  in 
the  '70s,  as  seen  thru  the  eyes  of  a  boy  of  ten. 
The  boy's  parents,  school  companions,  and  the 
odd  characters  of  the  community  are  vividly 
portrayed,  and  we  witness  among  other  events  a 
church  sociable,  a  temperance  lecture,  a  'boiling 
down,'  and  an  old  fashioned  country  dance." 
Pittsburgh 

A  few  of  the  sketches  appeared  in  the  Cen- 
tury 

Sidney,  Sir  Philip 

Bourne,  H.  R.  F.  Sir  Philip  Sidney:  type 
of  English  chivalry  in  the  Elizabethan 
age.  (Heroes  of  the  nations)  '91  Put- 
nam  $1.50  92 

List   of   principal   authorities,   pg-io. 

"Mr  Fox  Bourne's  claim  to  write  about  Sidney 
is  well  established.  His  original  'Memoir  of 
Sir  Philip  Sidney'  is  among  the  best  things  of 
its  kind.  Critics  have  rejoiced  ...  to  throw  it 
in  the  teeth  of  succeeding  commentators,  and,  in 
a  word,  the  first  serious  rival  of  Mr  Fox  Bourne 
A.  D.  '62  is  Mr  Fox  Bourne  A.  D.  '92.  The 
thirty  years  have  perhaps  shed  as  much  light  on 
the  period  of  Sidney  as  on  any  other  in  liter- 
ature. And  the  light  has  so  shone  on  Mr  Bourne 
that  he  tells  his  story  afresh,  disowning  .  .  . 
certain  hot  errors  of  his  youthful  blood.  .  .  . 
In  a  marked  degree  he  succeeds  in  picturing  to 
us  the  possibilities  of  noble  boyhood  and  man- 
hood in  the  Elizabethan  days.  But  it  is  Sidney 
for  Sidney's  sake  who  has  our  interest  and  at- 
tention thruout  the  volume."  (Athenaeum, 
1892)   Pittsburgh 

See  also  M.  W.  Wallace's  "Life  of  Sir  Philip 
Sidney,"    1915,   Putnam,   $3.25 

Sill,  Edward  Rowland 
Parker,  W.  B.    Edward  Rowland  Sill;  his 
life  and  work,  il  '15  Houghton  $2        92 

"Sill  was  a  native  of  New  England,  but 
twenty-two  years  of  his  life  were  spent  in  Cali- 
fornia, and  he  did  much  to  bring  the  people  of 
the  eastern  and  western  coasts  together.  'Those 
who  would  like  to  trace  Sill's  long  struggle  be- 
tween faith  and  doubt — a  struggle  typical  of  his 
period — of  his  wide  and  discriminating  reading, 
or  his  self-effacing  zeal  as  a  teacher,  or  his  fine 
disregard  for  contemporary  fame  as  a  writer, 
or  his  great  and  true  magnanimity  as  a  man — 
must  read  all  of  Mr  Parker's  book.'  "  (Nation, 
1915)    Pittsburgh 

Slessor,   Mary  Mitchell 

Livingstone,  W.  P.   Mary  Slessor  of  Cal- 
abar. 6th  ed  il  map  '16  Doran  $1.50    92 

"  'One  of  the  most  fascinating  missionary  bi- 
ographies ever  written.'  (Outlook  115:194) 
Story  of  a  humbly  born  Scotch  woman  who,  fired 
by  missionary  zeal,  went  to  Calabar,  West 
Africa  in  1876,  where  she  worked  with  heroic 
devotion  among  the  African  bushmen  till  her 
death  in  1915.  Pictures  vividly  native  life  and 
customs.     Photographs."     N.Y.  state  lib. 

Smith,  Adam 

Hirst,  F.  W.    Adam  Smith.  (English  men 
of  letters)  '04  Macmillan  75c  92 

"Lucid  and  attractively  written  exposition  of 
Smith's  economic  theories,  and  a  biography  with- 
out suggestion   of   dulness."      A.    L.   A.   sup. 

Smith,  Sydney 

Russell,  G.  W.  E.   Sydney  Smith.  (English 
men  of  letters)  '05  Macmillan  75c        92 

"An  adequate  biography  of  the  great  Whig 
wit,  shrewd  and  kindly  as  criticism,  and  told 
largely   in   Smith's  own  words."      A.   L.  A.  sup. 


56 


STANDARD    CATALOG 


Smuts,  Jan  Christiaan 

Levi,  N.  Jan  Smuts;  a  character  sketch 
of  J.  C.  Smuts,  minister  of  defence, 
Union  of  South  Africa.  '17  Longmans 
$2.50  92 

"South  African  statesman  and  soldier  (born 
1870)  who  commanded  the  Boer  forces  in  Cape 
Colony,  and  after  the  war  aided  loyally  in  the 
work  of  reconstruction.  He  is  (19 17)  a  mem- 
ber of  the  British  imperial  war  cabinet  and 
leader  of  the  campaign  against  German  East 
Africa."      Pittsburgh 

Southey,  Robert 

Dowden.  Edward.  Southey.  (English  men 
of  letters)   '02  Harper  75c  92 

"Best  abridged  biography."  (Dictionary  of 
national  biography)    Pittsburgh 

Spalding,  Franklin  Spencer 
Melish,  J.  H.    Franklin  Spencer  Spalding, 
man  and  bishop,  il  '17  Macmillan  $2.25 

92 

"A  helpful  book  for  college  men  considering 
the  question  of  a  life  calling,  for  ministers  af- 
fected with  excessive  prudence  and  laymen  who 
do  not  appreciate  the  work  of  a  true  minister. 
Socialists  will  find  the  chapter  on  the  church 
and  socialism  almost  as  illuminating,  perhaps,  as 
the  average  churchman."  L.  A.  Walker  in  N.Y. 
Call,   August    12,    19 1 7 

"An  interesting  account  of  the  active  and 
useful  career  of  the  missionary  bishop  of  Utah." 
Pratt  quarterly 

Spencer,  Herbert 

Autobiography.  2v  il  '04  Appleton  $6  92 
"  'A  human  document  of  extraordinary  in- 
terest, the  intimate  record  of  a  great  thinker's 
life.  Besides  being  the  record  of  a  life  that  was 
heroic  in  the  finest  sense,  it  is  also  a  very 
human  production  and  one  of  the  most  abso- 
lutely honest  books  ever  written.'     (Dial) 

Duncan's  'Life  and  letters  of  Herbert  Spen- 
cer', Appleton,  1908,  2v,  $5.50;  written  at 
Spencer's  request,  covers  the  period  after  the 
'Autobiography'  ceased.  Includes  much  that  ap- 
peared in  the  'Autobiography'  but  is  more  pop- 
ular in  style,  and  contains  valuable  new  matter." 
A.   L.  A.  sup. 

Elliot,  H.  S.  R.  Herbert  Spencer.  (Makers 
of  the  ninteenth  century)  '17  Holt 
$2.25  92 

"This  account  of  Spencer's  life  and  writings, 
while  sound  in  judgment,  is  a  vivid,  unhack- 
neyed study,  so  lucid  and  genially  readable,  that 
even  the  person  who  knows  little  about  Spencer 
and  cares  less  about  his  philosophy  will  find 
himself  interested  in  both  Spencer's  life  and 
thought."  Springfield  Republican,  March  II, 
1917 

Thomson,  J.  A.  Herbert  Spencer.  (Eng- 
lish men  of  science)  '06  Dutton  $1      92 

"An  eminent  scientist's  appreciation  of  Spen- 
cer's life,  character  and  scientific  work,  with 
special  attention  to  his  position  as  an  evolution- 
ist."    (N.Y.  state  lib.)   A.  L.  A.  sup. 

Temporarily    out    of   stock,    November    1918 

Stanhope,  Lady  Hester  Lucy 

Hamel,  Frank.  Lady  Hester  Lucy  Stan- 
hope: a  new  light  on  her  life  and  love 
affairs,  il  '13  Funk  $5  92 

"Mr  Hamel  tells  the  story  of  Lady  Hester's  life 
— its  happy  childhood  and  girlhood,  the  disillu- 
sionment of  her  young  womanhood,  her  depar- 
ture from  the  England  she  was  never  to  see 
again,  her  journey  to  the  Holy  Land  via  Malta, 
Constantinople  and  Egypt,  and  then  the  long 
years  in  Palestine,  filled  at  first  with  triumphs 
never  before  accorded  an  English  woman,  but 
ending  in  .disappointment,  loneliness  and  poverty 
.  .  .  The  book  has  new  viewpoints,  which  bring 
to  us  more  vividly  than  has  hitherto  been  done, 
a  personality  woven  of  the  most  conflicting  char- 
acteristics."    Boston    Transcript 


Stanley,  Sir  Henry  Morton 

Autobiography;    ed.   by   Lady   Stanley,   il 
map  '09   Houghton  $6  92 

"Sir  Henry  Stanley  (1841-1904)  prepared 
the  greater  part  of  this  work,  the  supplementary 
narrative  being  made  up  from  his  letters,  diaries, 
etc.  It  is  an  extraordinary  life-record,  beginning 
in  the  workhouse,  where  he  was  cruelly  treated, 
continuing  in  a  hand-to-mouth  existence,  a  voy- 
age to  America,  soldier  life  in  the  Civil  war, 
the  ups  and  downs  of  journalism,  and  finally, 
the  African  explorations  which  made  him 
famous."  Pittsburgh 

— Same,  il  popular  ed  '11  Houghton  $2.50 

92 
Stanton,    Edwin    McMasters 

Gorham,  G.  C.   Life  and  public  services  of 
Edwin  M.  Stanton.  2v  '99  Houghton  $7 

92 

"Altho  this  work  contains  a  sketch  of  Stan- 
ton's early  life,  his  professional  career  and  his 
general  characteristics,  its  main  purpose  is  to 
present  the  record  of  his  relation  to  the  Civil 
war,  and  to  mark  the  place  in  history  to  which 
his  services  to  the  country  entitled  him.  His 
public  life  embraced  the  secession  winter  of 
1860-61,  three  years  of  the  Civil  war — 1862-65, 
and  three  years  of  the  reconstruction  struggle 
which  followed."     Pittsburgh 

Stedman,  Edmund  Clarence 

Fuller,  Margaret.    A  New  England  child- 
hood. '16  Little  $1.50  92 

"The  book  is  a  beautiful  record  of  the  begin- 
nings of  a  beautiful  life,  but  it  is  something 
else;  it  is  a  vivid  and  charming  and  true  picture 
of  the  New  England  of  eighty  years  ago."  Inde- 
pendent   88:163 

"The  childhood  and  youth  of  Stedman,  the 
gifted  poet,  told  by  his  former  secretary,  who 
spent  her  own  childhood  in  the  same  town  and 
who  knew  intimately  those  persons  by  whom 
the   little    Edmund   was    surrounded."    St.    Louis 

Steiner,  Edward  Alfred 
Against  the  current.  '10  Revell  $1.50      92 

"Dramatic,    appealing    story    of    the    author's 
childhood   as   an    orthodox    Hebrew   in    Hungary, 
and  of  the  unusual  influences  contrih 
mental    and    spiritual    development    and    his   pas- 
sion for  humanity."      N.Y.  state  lib. 

From   alien  to   citizen;   the   story  of  my 
life  in  America,  il  '14  Revell  $1.75        92 

"Author  came  to  America  as  a  Jewish  im- 
migrant, and  after  varied  experiences  in  sweat 
shops,  in  the  steel-mills  of  Pittsburgh,  and  in 
coal  mines,  among  tramps,  strikers  and  fellow 
immigrants,  he  rose  to  honorable  service  in  the 
Christian  ministry.  He  is  (1914)  professor  of 
applied  Christianity  in  Grinnell  college,  Iowa." 
Pittsburgh 

"Experiences  which  show  how  hard  the  way  is 
made  for  an  immigrant  are  cited  without  bitter- 
ness, and  thru  all  shines  an  unbounded  faith  in 
America."     N.J.   lib.  bul. 

Stephen,  Sir  Leslie 

Maitland,  F.  W.    Life  and  letters  of  Les- 
lie Stephen,  il  '06  Putnam  $4.50  92 

"Made  up  largely  from  Stephen's  letters  and 
the  appreciative  comments  of  his  friends;  a  study 
of  the  man  rather  than  a  criticism  of  his  work. 
Notable  as  a  piece  of  literature  and  as  a  faith- 
ful and  vital  portrait."  (N.Y.  state  lib.) 
A.  L.  A.  sup 

"Sir  Leslie  Stephen  (1832-1904)  was  preemin- 
ent as  a  critic,  thinker  and  philosopher  and  as  ed- 
itor of  the  'Dictionary  of  national  biography.' 
Mr  Maitland,  who  was  Stephen's  intimate  friend 
for  many  years  and  his  kinsman  by  marriage, 
tells  with  much  detail  the  story  of  his  life  and 
brings  together  many  of  his  letters.  One  of  the 
most  interesting  chapters  is  devoted  to  Stephen's 
first  visit  to  the  United  States,  as  some  of  the 
best  letters  are  written  to  his  American  friends, 
notably  Charles  Eliot  Norton,  James  Russell 
Lowell  and  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes."     Pittsburgh 


BIOGRAPHY— Individual 


57 


Sterling,  John 

Carlyle,  Thomas.  Life  of  John  Sterling; 
ed.  with  an  introd.  by  H.  D.  Traill, 
centenary  ed  1900  Scribner  $1.75         92 

Sterling  (1806- 1844)  was  an  English  author, 
a  personal  friend  of  Carlyle 

"Study  of  spiritual  history.  Contains  the 
famous  portrait  of  Coleridge  seated  'on  the  brow 
of  Highgate  hill.'  Saintsbury  includes  it  in  an 
essay  on  seven  great  biographies."  (N.Y.  state 
lib.)   A.  L.  A. 

"What  Carlyle  with  wonderful  art  has  done 
is  to  .  .  .  lead  us  to  believe  that  we  are  reading 
a  life  of  Sterling,  while  Sterling  is  really  'van- 
ished' and  we  are  actually  reading  an  extraor- 
dinarily interesting  history  of  the  places  that  he 
lived  in,  the  men  he  knew  .  .  .  and  the  per- 
sonality of  his  redoubtable  and  admirable  friend 
and  biographer,  all  thrown  up  on  a  background 
of  the  shortcomings  of  church  and  state  of  Eng- 
land in  the  nineteenth  century."  (George  Saints- 
bury)  Pittsburgh 

Stern,  Mrs  Elizabeth  Gertrude  (Levin) 
My  mother  and  I.  '17  Macmillan  $1  92 

Appeared  in  the  Ladies'  home  journal,  V33, 
October    1916 

"One  of  America's  foster  children,  now  the 
head  of  a  cultured  American  home,  writes  to 
tell  of  what  she  was  and  what  she  has  become 
thru  the  courage  and  devotion  of  the  little  Jew- 
ish mother  who  has  retained  thru  years  of  life 
in  an  American  city  her  alien  speech  and  cus- 
toms. The  remarkable  charm  of  the  book  lies  in 
the  daughter's  faithful  picture  of  the  mother 
and  in  her  appreciation  of  what  the  American- 
ization of  the  foreign-born  means  in  pain  and 
separation,  a  gap  bridged  in  this  case  by  love 
and  gratitude."     Cleveland 

Sterne,  Laurence 

Traill,  H.  D.  Sterne.  (English  men  of  let- 
ters) '94  Harper  75c  92 
"Brilliantly  written  and  picturesque.  He  has 
drawn  copiously  from  Mr  Fitzgerald's  'Life  of 
Sterne,'  no  doubt,  but  then  he  has  not  followed 
the  time-honored  precedent  in  such  cases  of 
abusing  the  source  from  which  he  draws." 
(Athenaeum,  1882)  Pittsburgh 

Stevens,  Thaddeus 

McCall,  S.  W.  Thaddeus  Stevens.  (Amer- 
can  statesman)  '09  Houghton  $1.35    92 

Woodburn,  J.  A.  Life  of  Thaddeus  Stev- 
ens; a  study  in  American  political  his- 
tory, especially  in  the  period  of  the  Civ- 
il war  and  reconstruction,  il  '13  Bobbs 
$2.50  92 

"Is  of  interest  not  only  as  a  biography  of 
one  of  the  most  important  congressional  leaders 
of  his  time,  but  also  as  a  study  in  American 
political  history^  during  a  period  of  marked  con- 
gressional dominance."  Amer.  pol.  sci.  rev. 
7=479    ,  . 

Supplements   McCall's  life   of   Stevens 

See  also  Phillips'  "Life  of  Robert  Toombs," 
19 1 3,  Macmillan,  $2 

"These  two  excellent  biographies  should  be 
studied  at  the  same  time,  for  not  yet  has  the 
history  of  the  struggle  over  slavery,  the  destruc- 
tion of  the  institution,  and  the  consequent  prob- 
lems, been  written  by  one  man  who  could  feel 
what  both  Toombs  and  Stevens  felt."  Pol.  sci. 
quar.  29:491 

Stevenson,  Robert  Louis 

Letters  of  Robert  Louis  Stevenson;  ed. 
by  Sidney  Colvin;  a  new  edition,  with 
150  new  letters.  4v  (Library  ed.)  il 
'11    Scribner  $6  92 

"There  are  few,  if  any,  more  readable  letters 
in  the  language.  They  are  full  to  the  very  brim 
of  life,  of  humor,  of  strangeness,  of  wisdom, 
goodness,  book-knowledge,  breadth  of  human 
sympathy — in  one  word,  of  Robert  Louis  Steven- 
son."    Pratt  alcove 


— Same;  il.  by  E.  C.  Peixotto  and  Jules 
Guerin.  4v  Scribner  $6.40;  biographi- 
cal ed.,  without  il.  $5.40  92 

New  letters;  selected  and  ed.  by  Sidney 
Colvin.  '12  Scribner  $1.35  92 

"Contains  162  letters,  dating  from  all  periods 
of  Stevenson's  life,  and  addressed  mainly  to 
Sidney  Colvin,  Mrs  Sitwell,  W.  E.  Henley,  and 
the  author's  parents.  The  same  collection,  with 
a  few  omissions  is  contained  in  his  'Letters.'  " 
Pittsburgh 

Vailima  letters;  [ed.  by  Sidney  Colvin.] 
2v  '95  Scribner  $2.25  92 

"Correspondence  addressed  to  Sidney  Colvin, 
November   1890-October   1894."     Subtitle 

Balfour,  Graham.  Life  of  Robert  Louis 
Stevenson.  2v  '01  Scribner  $4  92 

Chronological  list  of  writings  of  Stevenson, 
V2,  P248-61 

"Authorized  biography  by  his  cousin  and  in- 
timate, largely  compiled  from  Stevenson's  own 
records.  Supplements  the  more  valuable  and  in- 
spiring 'Letters,'  edited  by  Colvin."  (N.Y.  state 
lib.)  A.  L.  A. 
— Same;  abridged  edition  revised,  il  '15 
Scribner  $2;  biographical  ed.,  without 
il.  $1.35  92 

"Minor  additions  and  revisions  have  been 
made  in  the  first  abridged  edition  and  thirteen 
illustrations  added."    A.  L.  A. 

Stewart,   Mrs.  Elinore   Pruitt   Rupert 
Letters   of  a  woman  homesteader,  il  '14 
Houghton   $1.35  92 

"The  strong  personality  behind  these  letters 
is  shown  in  a  robust  observation  of  Wyoming 
life,  and  an  unconventional  wielding  of  homely 
English  .  .  .  The  homesteader  is  writing  in- 
formally to  an  understanding  friend,  and  her 
pen  enters  racily  into  the  doings  of  Mormons, 
Christians,  and  outlaws,  of  her  Scotch  em- 
ployer, the  Frenchman  Gavotte,  and  the  out-of- 
doors-loving,  assertive  Mrs  Louderer  and  Mrs 
O'Shaughnessy."      (Nation,   19 14)    Pittsburgh 

"A  writer  in  the  London  Athenaeum,  said  of 
her  book:  'The  reviewer  recalls  no  other  collec- 
tion of  letters  so  compact  of  health,  mental  and 
physical,  of  sincerity,  and  of  simple  happiness.'  " 
N.Y.  Times  20:393 

Appeared  in  Atlantic  monthly,  vi  12-13,  Oc- 
tober   1913-February    19 14 

Letters  on  an  elk  hunt,  il  '15  Houghton 
$1.20  92 

Appeared  in  the  Atlantic  monthly,  VI15,  Feb- 
ruary-June   1915 

"More  letters  from  the  'Woman  homesteader* 
giving  in  simple,  homely  style  her  experiences 
on  a  hunting  trip  and  sketches  of  the  people 
she  met  on  the  way.  Characterized  by  the  same 
warm  humanity,  romance  and  touches  of  tragedy 
as  the  first  book."    N.Y.  state  lib. 

Stowe,  Mrs  Harriet  Beecher 

Crow,  Mrs  M.  F.  Harriet  Beecher  Stowe. 
il  '13  Appleton  $1.35  92 

"A  very  readable,  enthusiastic  biography, 
dwelling  specially  on  her  girlhood  and  home 
life."     Wis.   bul. 

Stowe,  C.  E.,  and  L.  B.  Harriet  Beecher 
Stowe;  the  st'ory  of  her  life  by  her  son 
and  grandson.  '11  Houghton  $1.75        92 

"Valuable  for  family  reminiscences  and  in- 
teresting for  side  lights  on  the  political  events 
of  the  Civil  war  period.  Her  early  life  in  her 
father's  strict  Calvinistic  household  is  espec- 
ially well  described.  A  centennial  anniversary 
volume,  and  rather  a  study  of  her  character 
and  personality  than  of  her  literary  work.  Il- 
lustrations,  including  portraits."    N.Y.  state   lib. 

See  also  Mrs  Field's  "Life  and  letters  of  Har- 
riet Beecher   Stowe,"    1897,   Houghton,   $2.25 


58 


STANDARD    CATALOG 


Stuyvesant,   Peter 

Tuckerman,  Bayard.  Peter  Stuyvesant, 
director-general  for  the  West  India 
company  in  New  Netherland.  (Makers 
of  America)  '93  Dodd  $1  92 

"Useful  and  well  written  account  of  the  life 
of  Stuyvesant  and  of  the  history  of  New  Nether- 
land during  the  last  twenty  years  of  its  exist- 
ence." (Larned's  Literature  of  Amer.  history) 
Pittsburgh 

Sukloff,  Marie 
Life-story  of  a  Russian  exile;  tr.  by  Greg- 
ory Yarros.  il  '14  Century  $1.50  92 
"Dramatic  personal  narrative  of  a  peasant 
girl  who  was  exiled  twice  to  Siberia  for  her 
Social-revolutionist  sympathies  and  activities,  the 
last  time  for  life,  finally  escaping  after  pro- 
longed illness  and  suffering  to  the  United 
States."    Cleveland 

Sumner,  Charles 

Haynes,  G.  H.  Charles  Sumner.  (Ameri- 
can crisis  biographies)  '09  Jacobs  $1.50 

92 

"A  good  political  biography  of  Sumner  and 
a  trustworthy  sketch  of  Civil  war  history.  More 
interestingly  written  and  fuller  on  the  personal 
side  than  Moorfield  Storey's  life."  A.  L.  A. 
sup. 
Storey,  Moorfield.  Charles  Sumner. 
(American  statesman)  1900  Houghton 
$1.35  92 

Summary   of   public   career   and   influence 

Swedenborg,  Emanuel 

Trobridge,  George.  Life  of  Emanuel 
Swedenborg:  his  life,  teachings,  and  in- 
fluence.   '19  New-church  press  $1       92 

"Trobridge's  is  a  'different'  biography  of 
Swedenborg  from  any  of  its  many  predeces- 
sors. It  is  not  written  as  a  special  plea,  either 
to  those  definitely  inside  or  outside  the  body  of 
Swedenborg's  followers.  It  is  based  on  all  the 
painstaking  research  which  appears  so  plainly 
in  some  others'  work,  but  in  his  is  all  tucked 
away.  .  .  .  The  present  book  is  an  American 
issue  of  the  second  English  (most  popular)  paper 
edition,  omitting  some  few  topical  and  other 
illusions  of  interest  only  to  British  readers." 
C.  W.  Harvey  in  Forward 

Swift,  Jonathan 

Stephen,  Sir  Leslie.  Swift.  (English  men 
of  letters)  '82  Macmillan  60c  92 

"Perhaps,  too  much  space  is  devoted  to  the  part 
played  by  Swift _ as  a  politician;  and  yet  nowhere 
have  we  met  with  an  account  of  Swift's  public 
career  so  concise  and  so  comprehensive.  That  the 
little  volume  should  be  entirely  satisfactory  to 
the  student  of  the  period  is  impossible,  for  Mr 
Stephen  has  been  forced  to  write,  as  it  were, 
in  shorthand,  but  the  general  reader  will  gain 
all  he  is  likely  to  ask  for  from  this  admirably 
written  narrative."  (Spectator,  1882)  Pitts- 
burgh 

Swinburne,  Algernon  Charles 

Gosse,  E.  W.  Life  of  Algernon  Charles 
Swinburne,  il  '17  Macmillan  $3.50       92 

"The  first  complete  life  of  Swinburne  built 
up,  with  a  mass  of  added  material  from  Gosse's 
own  sketch  of  his  poet-friend  in  the  Encyclopedia 
Britannica.  An  extraordinarily  vivid  and  many- 
sided  characterization,  with  some  tantalizing  re- 
ticences and  many  features  of  unique  interest." 
Cleveland 

"It  is  conversant  with  all  the  details  of  Swin- 
burne's life,  stored  with  all  sorts  of  lively,  in- 
timate information  concerning  him,  his  work, 
his  familiars,  and  with  a  literary  criticism  whose 
classic  authority  for  praise  and  dispraise,  in 
most  instances  at  least,  it  would  be  hard  to 
match  among  all  that  has  been  written  about 
him."      (New    Republic,    19 17)    Pittsburgh 

See  also  Swinburne's  Letters;  ed.  by  Edmund 
Gosse  and  T.  J.   Wise,    19 19,    Lane,   2v.,    $5 


Symonds,  John  Addington 

Brown,  H.  R.  F.  John  Addington  Sy- 
monds; a  biography  compiled  from  his 
papers  and  correspondence,  new  ed.  '03 
Scribner  $2.50  92 

"  'One  who  of  all  the  men  of  our  genera- 
tion best  knew,  loved  and  understood  the  Italian 
genius  in  literature.'     (Frederic  Harrison) 

'Symonds    was    one    of    the    most    lovable    of 
men:    brave   in   his   outlook,    courageous     in 
face    of    adverse    and    often    disastrous    circun 
stances,  youthfully  enthusiastic  .  .  .  generous, 
nature  of  sweet  human  sunshine.     .  .  .     He 
a  scholar  in  the  best  sense  of  the  word:   a  ma 
of    catholic    culture.       There    has    in    our    time, 
been  no  mind  more  sensitive  to  beauty.'      (Wil- 
liam   Sharp    in   Academy,    1895) 

Mr  Brown,  whom  Mr  Symonds  asked  to  be 
his  literary  executor,  has  very  wisely  supple- 
mented Mr  Symonds'  biography  by  many  let- 
ters and  extracts  from  diaries  and  notebooks, 
and  has  been  unusually  successful  in  putting 
these  together  into  a  consecutive  narrative.' 
Pittsburgh 

Synge,  John  Millington 

Bickley,  Francis.  J.  M.  Synge  and  the 
Irish  dramatic  movement.  (Modern  bi- 
ographies) '12  Houghton  75c 

Some    estimates    of    Synge,    etc.    P97. 

"Small  book  giving  brief  biographical  details, 
and  analysis  of  his  plays  and  a  resume  of  the 
Irish   dramatic  movement."      Pittsburgh 

Bourgeois,  Maurice.  John  Millington 
Synge  and  the  Irish  theatre,  il  '13  Mac- 
millan $2.50,  92 

General   bibliography,   P251-96 

"A  scholarly,  exhaustive  study,  which  aims 
to  give  a  'biographical  and  sociological,  rather 
than  a  purely  literary  interpretation  of  Synge's 
life-work.'  "     A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

"Pronounced  by  the  English  Saturday  review 
to  be  the  best  book  on  Synge  yet  written,  in 
that  it  has  all  available  information  and  material, 
and  presents  a  solid  basis  of  fact  and  under- 
standing criticism  for  all  who  shall  write  of 
Synge  hereafter."      Cleveland 

Masefield,  John.     John  M.  Synge:  a  few 
personal  recollections,    with    biograph- 
ical notes.  '15   Macmillan  92 
Out  of  print,   19 18 

List  of  his  plays,  in  chronological  order,  with 
dates  of  their  first  performances,  P33;  Other 
writings,    P34. 

Taft,  Mrs  Helen  (Herron) 

Recollections  of  full  years,  by  Mrs.  Wil- 
liam H.  Taft.  il  '14  Dodd  $3.50  92 

Appeared  in  the  Delineator,  V84-85,  May- 
November,    1914 

"Delightfully  written  autobiography  of  the 
wife  of  ex-president  Taft,  from  her  childhood 
to  the  election  of  1912.  Is  full  of  intimate  de- 
tails of  persons  and  events  that  made  notable 
the  first  25  years  of  the  married  life  of  the 
Tafts,  all  but  a  single  year  of  which  was 
spent  in  the  public  service."  N.J.  lib.  bul. 

Tagore,  Sir  Rabindranath 

My  reminiscences,  il  '17'  Macmillan  $1.50 

92 

"Well  worth  a  place  in  literature.  ...  In 
the  frankness  of  its  self-revelation  and  the 
naivete  combined  with  the  latent  vigour  of  the 
style,  it  reminds  us  of  Yoshio  Markino's  'When  I 
was  a  child';  but  there  the  resemblance  ends  .  .  . 
It  contains  much  to  attract  even  those  who  are 
not  interested  in  the  psychological  aspects  of 
literature;  quaint  character  sketches  of  teach- 
ers, friends  and  fellow-students,  vivid  pictures 
of  Indian  habits  and  scenery,  analyses  of  child 
mentality  done  with  extraordinary  insight  and 
sympathy."       Spectator    119:191 


BIOGRAPHY— Individual 


59 


Tagore,  Sir  Rabindranath — Continued 

Roy,  B.  K.  Rabindranath  Tagore,  the 
man  and  his  poetry,  il  '15  Dodd  $1.35 

92 

"A  biographical  and  critical  account  by  a  fel- 
low countryman  and  personal  acquaintance  of 
the   poet."      Pratt   quarterly 

"Comparing  this  biography  by  a  fellow  coun- 
tryman of  Tagore  with  the  Rhys  book,  19 15, 
Macmillan,  $1.25,  the  Dial  says:  'Both  biograph- 
ers have  gathered  their  information  at  first 
hand,  but  Mr  Rhys,  partly  because  of  his  style 
and  partly  because  of  his  merely  appreciative 
and  interpretive  role,  has  given  no  very  definite 
outline  to  the  character  of  the  poet  and  mystic. 
Mr  Roy  has  been  more  conscious  of  the  diffi- 
culties of  interpreting  the  East  to  the  West 
and  has  maintained  a  more  critical  poise  thru- 
out   the   book."      Cleveland 

Talbot,  Ethelbert 

My  people  of  the  plains,  new  ed  il  '06 
Harper    $1.50  92 

"Reminiscences  of  the  author  while  bishop  in 
Wyoming  and  Idaho  during  their  pioneer  days, 
full  of  life  and  interest.  Adds  a  new  chapter 
to  the  history  of  American  missions."  A.  L.  A. 
sup. 

Tarkington,  Booth 

Holliday,  R.  C.  Booth  Tarkington.  il  '18 
Doubleday  $1.25  92 

"An  intimate  and  entertaining  biography  of 
the  popular  author  from  his  precocious  baby- 
hood to  the  present,  together  with  highly  ap- 
preciative criticism  of  his  main  writings." 
A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

Temple,  Dorothy  (Osborne),  lady 

Love  letters  to  Sir  William  Temple,  1652- 
54;  ed.  by  E.  A.  Parry.  '01  Dodd  $1.25 

92 

"Dorothy's  letters  tell  the  story  of  this  old- 
time  courtship  from  its  commencement  to  its 
happy  termination,  and  reveal  to  us  the  singu- 
larly noble  and  attractive  personality  of  Lady 
Temple.  .  .  .  The  letters  are  written  in  a 
very  agreeable  style,  and  show  the  courtly  ne- 
gotiator of  the  Triple  alliance,  in  a  pleasanter 
light  than  that  in  which  we  have  heretofore 
seen  him."      (Dial,   1889)   Pittsburgh 

Tennyson,  Alfred  Tennyson,  1st  baron 

Cary,  E.  L.  Tennyson,  his  homes,  his 
friends  and  his  work,  il  '02  Putnam 
$3.50  92 

"Outline  biography,  with  many  quoted  crit- 
ical estimates,  including  a  hitherto  unnoted  re- 
view of  the  'Princess'  by  Lowell."  (N.Y.  state 
lib.)     A.   L.  A. 

Ellison,  Mrs  E.  N.  Child's  recollections 
of  Tennyson,  il  '06  Dutton  $1.25  92 

"Charming  reminiscences  of  a  privileged 
childhood  on  the  Isle  of  Wight  _  in  intimate 
friendship  with  the  Tennyson  family.  Told  by 
the  daughter  of  Dean  Bradley  of  Westminster." 
(N.Y.   state  lib)   A.   L.  A.  sup. 

Lang,  Andrew.  Alfred  Tennyson.  Mod- 
ern English  writers)  '01  Dodd  $1.25  92 
"Based  on  the  authorized  life  of  Tennyson 
by  his  son.  Of  value  as  the  narrative  of  a 
judicial  historian  and  as  the  appreciation  of  an 
eminent  critic,  and  thorogoing  Tennysonian." 
(Johnston)  A.  L.  A. 

Tennyson,  H.  T.  Alfred,  Lord  Tenny- 
son; a  memoir.  2v  il  '97  Macmillan  $4 

92 

"Not  a  continuous  narrative,  but  a  collection 
of  letters,  extracts,  reminiscences  and  hitherto 
unpublished  poetic  fragments  linked  together  by 
the   son's   personal   recollections."      Pratt   alcove 

'A  record  so  full  as  perhaps  has  never  been 
given  to  the  world,  of  the  growth  and  progress 
of  the  mind  of  a  great  imaginative  artist.'  " 
(Edmund   Gosse)   A.   L.  A. 


"The  edition  of  Tennyson  called  the  'Life  and 
complete  works'  (iov,  Macmillan)  contains  this 
biography  as  the  first  four  volumes  in  very  de- 
sirable   form. 

Turnbull,  Arthur.  Life  and  writings  of 
Alfred,  Lord  Tennyson.  (Great  writers) 
'15  Scribner  $1.25  92 

"A  'life'  which  does  not  further  our  ac- 
quaintance with  Tennyson  the  man,  as  its  biog- 
raphical material  is  largely  based  on  the 
'Memoirs'  and  'Tennyson  and  his  friends'  by 
Hallam,  Lord  Tennyson,  but  is  valuable  in  its 
discussion  of  Tennyson  as  poetic  craftsman,  its 
critical  comments  on  the  separate  poems,  and 
its  evaluation  of  Tennyson's  work  as  a  whole." 
Cleveland 

See  also  T.  R.  Lounsbury's  "Life  and  times 
of  Tennyson,"  a  literary  biography  published  in 
19 15,  Yale  university  press,  $3,  and  Hallam 
Tennyson's  "Tennyson  and  his  friends,"  Mac- 
millan,   191 1,    $3 

Thackeray,  William  Makepeace 

Letters  to  an  American  family;  with  an 
introd.  by  L.  D.  Baxter,  il  '04  Century 
$1.50  92 

"Reveals  a  kindly  personality,  bubbling  over 
with  gaiety,  sparkling  fun  and  badinage.  Writ- 
ten during  and  after  his  American  lectures. 
Drawings  by  author."     A.  L.  A.  sup. 

Merivale,  H.  C,  and  Marzials,  F.  T.  Life 
of  W.  M.  Thackeray.  (Great  writers) 
'91  Scribner  $1.40  92 

Chapters  1-6  and  12  are  by  Merivale;  chap- 
ters 7-11,  by  Marzials.     Bibliography,  23  pref.  p. 

See  also  F.  H.  Smith's  "In  Thackeray's  Lon- 
don," 19 1 3,  Doubleday,  $4;  and  Lewis  Melville's 
"The  Thackeray  country,"    191 1,  Macmillan,  $2 

Thaxter,  Mrs  Celia  (Laighton) 

Letters;  ed.  by  her  friends  A.  F.  and 
R.  L.  '95  Houghton  $1.75  92 

"Written  from  1856-1894.  Pleasant  picture 
of  a  quiet  sea-island  life,  full  of  generous  activ- 
ities and  individual  flavors."  (N.Y.  state  lib.) 
A.  L.  A. 

Thompson,  Francis 

Meynell,  Everard.  Life  of  Francis 
Thompson,  new  ed  il  '16  Scribner  $2.25 

92 

"  'A  poet  writing  of  a  poet,'  the  son  of 
Wilfrid  Meynell,  who  rescued  Francis  Thomp- 
son from  the  depths  to  which  drugs  and  failure 
had  brought  him,  gives  this  first  clear  and  won- 
derfully sympathetic  account  of  that  strange 
and  hidden  career."     Cleveland 

Thoreau,  Henry  David 

Familiar  letters;  ed.  with  an  introd.  and 
notes  by  F.  B.  Sanborn.  (Riverside  ed.) 
'96  Houghton  $1.60  92 

"Includes  apparently  all  the  letters  in  Emer- 
son's edition  of  1865.  .  .  .  Mr  Sanborn's  ad- 
ditional matter  is  of  two  kinds — letters  of 
Thoreau's  not  hitherto  published  in  a  book,  and 
a  good  deal  of  editorial  matter,  rich  in  per- 
sonal recollection  and  the  fruit  of  much  re- 
search. ...  Moreover  Mr  Sanborn  has  made 
good  his  purpose  in  undertaking  a  new  collec- 
tion, namely,  to  show  Thoreau  in  a  less  aloof 
and  stoical  aspect  than  Emerson  deliberately 
singled  out."     (Nation,   1894)  Pittsburgh 

"Mr  Sanborn,  who  died  in  19 17,  was  the 
last  surviving  member  of  the  Concord  group; 
his  friendship  with  Thoreau  covers  the  ten 
years  before  the  poet  naturalist's  death  in  1862 
and  he  was  for  many  years  thereafter  an  in- 
timate in  the  Emerson  and  Thoreau  families." 
Cleveland 

Emerson,  E.  W.  Henry  Thoreau,  as  re- 
membered by  a  young  friend,  il  '17 
Houghton  $1.35  92 

"Recollections  written  by  a  son  of  Ralph 
Waldo    Emerson,    which    emphasize    the    lovable, 


60 


STANDARD   CATALOG 


Thoreau,  Henry  David— Continued 

friendly  side  of  Thoreau.  They  show  him 
playing  with  the  Emerson  children,  mending 
locks  for  his  neighbors,  and  as  an  honest,  sin- 
cere seeker  for  simplicity  in  life  and  thought." 
A.  L.   A.   bkl. 

Sanborn,    F.    B.     Life    of    Henry    David 
Thoreau.  il  '17  Houghton  $4  92 

Library  of  Henry  D.  Thoreau,  P505-19;  List 
of  authors  read  or  to  be  read,  by  H.  D. 
Thoreau,    P520-21 

"Sanborn's  life  is  less  satisfactory  than 
Henry  Salt's,  which  has  the  virtue  of  propor- 
tion, emphasis,  focus,  definite  purpose;  is  less 
satisfactory,  in  some  respects  than  the  earlier 
book  by  Sanborn.  Yet  it  is  far  from  super- 
fluous."     Norman    Foerster    in    Yale    rev.    7:430 

The  biographer  has  made  use  of  all  possible 
sources  of  information,  has  included  all  the  re- 
maining unpublished  Thoreau  literary  material, 
notably  some  early  essays  and  has  added  to  the 
interest  of  the  volume  by  securing  as  illustra- 
tions about  20  old  drawings,  prints  and  family 
photographs,  most  of  them  here  used  for  the 
first  time.  The  volume  is  not  well  arranged 
and  coherent,  however,  and  the  author's  style 
is  stilted  even  in  his  lapses  into  familiar  anec- 
dote. 'The  result  is  therefore,  an  excellent 
Thoreau  biography  in  substance  but  not  in 
form.'  "  (Boston  Transcript)  Cleveland 
— Thoreau.  (American  men  of  letters) 
Houghton  $1.35  92 

Ticknor,  George 

Life,  letters  and  journals.  2v  76  Hough- 
ton $6  92 

"Mr  Ticknor  was  the  most  marked  type  of 
the  American  man  of  letters  and  society  of  the 
first  half  of  this  century,  as  distinguished  from 
the  mere  scholar  or  author.  .  .  .  The  pages 
of  Mr  Ticknor's  'Diary  and  letters'  are  full  of 
anecdotes  and  narratives  of  conversation,  of 
descriptions  of  remarkable  men  and  women,  and 
of  unusual  personal  experience,  which  are  so 
fresh  and  entertaining,  so  well  told  and  so  il- 
lustrative of  social  habits  as  to  form  a  con- 
tribution of  no  slight  value  to  our  knowledge 
of  the  life  of  the  times."  (Nation,  1876)  Pitts- 
burgh 

Tolstoi,  Leo   Nikolaievitch,  count 

Childhood,  boyhood  and  youth.  '11 
Crowell  $1.25  92 

"A  spiritual,  not  a  literal,  autobiography; 
events  are  altered  and  personalities  transposed, 
but  Tolstoi's  purpose  was  to  recreate  the  im- 
pressions he  had  received  from  his  early  sur- 
roundings."     Springfield    city    library 

Dole,  N.  H.  Life  of  Count  Lyof  N.  Tol- 
stoi, il  '11  Crowell  $1.25  92 
"Intimate  and  sympathetic  but  by  no  means 
blindly  partisan  biography,  meant  to  be  'rather 
a  plain  narration  than  an  attempt  to  rectify  or 
correc^  opinions  or  theories.'  Based  chiefly  on 
Tolstoi's  supposedly  autobiographic  writings  and 
biographies  by  Maude,  Behrs,  Steiner  and 
Birukoff.  The  most  comprehensive  biography 
in  English  is  Maude's  'Life  of  Tolstoy,'  19 10. 
2v.,   Dodd."      A.    L.   A.   sup. 

Garnett,  Edward.  Tolstoy;  his  life  and 
writings.  (Modern  biographies)  il  '14 
Houghton  75c  92 

Short  bibliography  and  selected  list  of  writ- 
ings 

"A  sympathetic  and  illuminating  little  biogra- 
phy-, reviewing  Tolstoi's  works  chronologically, 
and  showing  how  the  principal  events  of  his  life 
and  the  various  phases  of  his  mental  and  spir- 
itual development  are  reflected  in  his  writings. 
The  author  is  the  husband  of  Mrs  Constance 
Garnett,  whom  Prof.  William  Lyon  Phelps  calls 
the  'inspired  translator'  of  Russian  literature." 
Cleveland 

Lloyd,  J.  A.  T.    Two  Russian  reformers: 


Ivan  Turgenev  and  Leo  Tolstoy,  il  '11 
Lane    $3.50  92 

>  "A  sympathetic  study  of  Turgenev.  The  early 
influences  which  shaped  his  conceptions  of  life 
and  his  real  self  as  shown  in  his  works,  takes 
up  two-thirds  of  the  volume,  the  rest  of  which 
is  devoted  to  a  similiar  study  of  Tolstoy,  with 
some  slight  comparison  of  the  two  men." 
A.  L.  A.  sup. 

Maude,  Aylmer.    Leo  Tolstoy.    '18  Dodd 
$2.50  92 

An  entirely  rewritten  condensation  of  Ayl- 
mer Maude's  two-volume  life  of  Tolstoi 

Noyes,  G.  R.  Tolstoy.  (Master  spirits  of 
literature)     '18   Duffield   $2  92 

Bibliography,    P367-71 

"A  critical  consideration  of  Tolstoi's  many- 
sided  literary  work,  and  an  estimate  of  the  per- 
sonality thus  revealed.  Based  upon  Tolstoi's 
published  writings,  letters  and  diaries  and  the 
works  of  his  Russian  biographer,  Biryukov,  and 
of  Aylmer  Maude,  his  authorized  English  trans- 
lator. 

The  author  is  associate  professor  of  Slavic 
languages  at  the  University  of  California." 
Cleveland 

Rolland,  Romain.  Tolstoy;  tr.  by  Ber- 
nard Miall.  '11  Dutton  $2.25  92 

"Psychological  study  of  the  various  phases 
thru  which  Tolstoi  passed,  and  the  reflection  of 
these  phases  in  his  works.  .  .  .  Rolland  is  so 
far  the  only  man  of  creative  genius  who  has 
given  us  his  conception  of  the  creative  genius 
of  Tolstoy  .  .  .  and  therein  perhaps,  lie  the 
charm  and  the  value  of  his  book."  (Athe- 
naeum,   191 1)    Pittsburgh 

Tolstoi,  I.  L.  Reminiscences  of  Tolstoy, 
by  his  son;  tr.  by  George  Calderon.  il 
'14  Century  $2.50  92 

"Intimate,  homely  glimpses  of  life  in  the 
Tolstoi  family,  with  a  very  human  picture  of 
Tolstoi  as  father,  teacher  and  companion." 
Cleveland 

Appeared  in  the  Century  magazine,  v88,  June- 
August,    1914 

n  See  also  Tolstoi's  "Diaries"  of  which  vi, 
'Youth,  1847-52,"  was  published  by  Dutton  iri 
1917,  at  $2.  The  publisher  announces  two 
more  volumes.  Also  the  "Journal;  tr.  from 
the  Russian  by  Rose  Strunsky,"   19 17,  Knopf,  $2 

Trowbridge,  John  Townsend 

My  own  story,  with  recollections  of  not- 
ed persons.  '03  Houghton  $3  92 
Appeared  in  a  condensed  form  in  the  Atlantic 
monthly,    V91,   January-May,    1903 

"Reminiscences  of  long  literary  career  and  of 
acquaintance  with  many  distinguished  people 
mainly  New  Englanders.  Written  in  his  76th 
year."      (N.Y.   state   lib.)    A.   L.   A. 

Trudeau,  Edward  Livingston 

Autobiography,  il  '15  Doubleday  $2.50   92 

"Dr  Trudeau,  himself  tubercular  at  twenty- 
five,  went  to  the  Adirondacks  against  medical 
advice  in  a  desperate  search  for  health,  and 
worked  out  a  fresh  air  treatment  for  consump- 
tives, based  on  his  own  experience.  'The  be- 
loved physician'  founder  of  the  Adirondack  cot- 
tage sanitarium  at  Saranac,  here  tells  the  story 
of  his  boyhood  in  Paris,  gay  youth  in  New 
York  and  later  years  devoted  to  his  work.  The 
simple  narrative  is  frank  bst  entirely  objective, 
and  is  rich  in  both  human  and  scientific  inter- 
est."    Cleveland 

Chalmers,  Stephen.  The  beloved  physi- 
cian, il  '16  Houghton  $1.10  92 
"An  appreciation,  by  a  close  friend,  of  the 
character  and  achievements  of  the  founder  of 
the  Adirondack  cottage  sanitarium  at  Saranac 
Lake.  This  brief  memoir  published  first  in  the 
Atlantic  monthly,  forms  a  supplement  to  Dr 
Trudeau's  autobiography."     Cleveland 


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61 


Turgenev,   Ivan    Sergieevich 

Garnett,  Edward.  Turgenev,  a  study  with 
a  foreword  by  Joseph  Conrad.  '17  Col- 
lins 6s  92 

Lloyd,  J.  A.  T.  Two  Russian  reformers: 
Ivan  Turgenev  and  Leo  Tolstoy,  il  '11 
Lane  $3.50  92 

"A  sympathetic  study  of  Turgenev,  the  early 
influences  which  shaped  his  conception  of  life 
and  his  real  self  as  shown  in  his  works,  takes 
up  two-thirds  of  the  volume,  the  rest  of  which 
is  devoted  to  a  similar  study  of  Tolstoi,  with 
some  slight  comparison  of  the  two  men." 
A.   L.   A.   sup. 

Twain,    Mark,   pseud.    See    Clemens,   S.   L. 

Venizelos,  Eleutherios 

Kerofilas,  C.  Eleftherios  Venizelos,  his 
life  and  work;  tr.  by  Beatrice  Barstow. 
'16    Dutton    $2  92 

"Life-story  of  the  great  Greek  statesman  who 
was  premier  of  Greece  during  the  Balkan  war, 
formed  the  Balkan  alliance  against  Turkey,  and 
after  the  war  was  prominent  at  the  London 
Peace  conference  of  1012-1013.  An  unpreten- 
tious, rather  uncritical  sketch  by  an  admiring 
fellow  countryman,  covering  the  essential  facts 
of  his  career,  and  valuable  as  the  only  English 
biography."     A.   L.  A.  bkl. 

Verbeck,  Guido  Fridolin 

Griff  is,  W.  E.  Verbeck  of  Japan;  a  citizen 
of  no  country.  1900  Revell  $1.50  92 
"Verbeck  was  born  in  Holland  in  1830  and 
died  in  Tokio  in  1898.  He  went  to  Japan  in 
1859  as  a  missionary  of  the  Reformed  church 
and  was  connected  with  the  government  of  that 
country  from  1867- 1878.  Dr  Verbeck  was  one 
of  the  select  committee  which  brought  out  the 
Japanese  translation  of  the  Bible  in  1887  and 
was  president  of  the  University  of  Tokio." 
Pittsburgh 

Viaud,     Louis    Marie    Julien.        See    Loti, 
Pierre,  pseud. 

Victoria,  queen  of  Great  Britain 

Training  of  a  sovereign;  an  abridged  se- 
lection from  "The  girlhood  of  Queen 
Victoria,"  Her  Majesty's  diaries  be- 
tween the  years  1832  and  1840;  published 
by  the  authority  of  His  Majesty  the 
king;  ed.  by  Viscount  Esher.  il  '14 
Murray  5s  92 

Longmans  carries  the  unabridged  edition  in  two 
volumes  at   $9 

Lee,  Sidney.  Queen  Victoria.  '02  Smith- 
Elder  10s  6d;  rev  cheaper  ed  6s  92 

Expansion  of  article  in  Dictionary  of  na- 
tional  biography 

"Likely  to  remain  for  a  long  time  the  stand- 
ard  authority."      (Nation)    A.    L.   A. 

Villard,  Henry 

Memoirs  of  Henry  Villard,  journalist 
and  financier,  1835-1900.  2v  '04  Hough- 
ton $6  92 
"Henry  Villard  was  born  in  Speyer,  Bavaria, 
and  came  to  the  United  States  in  1853.  His 
autobiography  is  the  record  of  a  varied  and 
romantic  career  as  journalist,  field-correspond- 
ent during  the  Civil  war,  and  later  as  the 
financier  who  carried  the  Northern  Pacific  rail- 
road   to   completion."      Pittsburgh 

Voltaire,  Francois  Marie  Arouet  de 

Voltaire  in  his  letters;  tr.  by  S.  G.  Tal- 

lentyre.    il    '19  Putnam   $3.50  92 

"This   selection   was  made   to   give   readers   of 

Voltaire  access  to  those  of  his  letters  which  still 

retain    an    interest    for    our    time,    without    the 


necessity  of  wading  through  eighteen  large  vol- 
umes of  the  entire  correspondence.  The  title 
'Voltaire  in  his  letters'  was  chosen  to  indicate 
the  autobiographical  character  of  the  selection. 
.  .  .  For  the  benefit  of  those  not  acquainted 
with  _  Voltairean  history  a  brief  epitome  of  his 
life  is  included  in  the  preface."  Book  rev.  di- 
gest 

"The  translation  is  an  excellent  one,  and  the 
book  contains  several  reproductions  of  con- 
temporary portraits  of  Voltaire  and  others." 
Boston  Transcript,   March  5,    19 19 

Morley,  John.   Voltaire.  '03  Macmillan  $2 

92 
"This  is  hardly  a  life  of  Voltaire  as  that  word 
is  generally  understood.  ...  It  is  rather  a 
presentation  of  Voltaire  on  the  supposition  that 
we  are  already  familiar  with  the  main  incidents 
of  his  life,  and  a  discussion  of  his  influence  and 
various  views.  ...  It  is  full  of  eloquent  de- 
fence of  Voltaire,  as  well  as  of  critical  es- 
timate of  his  position.  .  .  .  We  commend 
this  book  for  its  earnestness,  its  impartiality  of 
aim  and  its  freedom  from  ill-temper  and  fanatic- 
ism."     (North   American   rev.,    1872)    Pittsburgh 

Waddington,  Mme  Mary  Alsop  (King) 
Italian  letters  of  a  diplomat's  wife:  Jan- 
uary-May,   1880;    February- April,    1904. 
il  '05   Scribner  $2.50  92 

"Two  series  of  letters  written  from  Rome, 
1880- 1904,  to  the  author's  American  mother  and 
sister.  They  describe  audiences  with  popes, 
kings,  queens  and  other  interesting  personages 
and  give  graphic  pictures  of  life  and  society." 
A.    L.   A.    sup. 

Letters  of  a  diplomat's  wife.  1883-1900.  il 
'03  Scribner  $2.50  92 

"The  American-born  wife  of  the  French  am- 
bassador at  Moscow  and  London  gives  vivid 
impressions  of  historic  personages  and  scenes 
in  informal  family  letters."  (N.Y.  state  lib.) 
A.    L.    A. 

Wallace,  Alfred  Russell 

Marchant,  James.  Alfred  Russell  Wal- 
lace; letters  and  reminiscences,  il  '16 
Harper  $5  92 

"Greater  part  of  the  volume  is  devoted  to 
the  friendly  and  appreciative  letters  exchanged 
between  Darwin  and  Wallace,  together  with  a 
few  of  family  interest  and  80  pages  of  corre- 
spondence with  Sir  Charles  Lyell,  Hooker, 
Herbert  Spencer  and  other  scientists.  The  few 
personal  touches  reveal  the  attractive  person- 
ality of  the  scientist  who  was  the  co-discov- 
erer with  Darwin  of  the  theory  of  natural  se- 
lection."     Cleveland 

"Probably  not  needed  by  most  libraries  who 
have   Wallace's   autobiography."      A.    L.    A.    bkl. 

Autobiography  now   (1919)    out  of  print 

Walpole,  Horace,  4th  Earl  of  Orford 

Best  letters  of  Horace  Walpole;  ed.  with 
an  introd.  by  Anna  B.  McMahan.  (Lau- 
rel-crowned    letters)     '11     McClurg   $1 

92 

"A   selection   from   the   correspondence   of   an 

eighteenth     century      English     aristocrat      whom 

Scott    referred   to    as    the    'best    letter    writer    in 

the    English    language.'  "      Pratt    alcove 

Walther,  Anna  Hilda  Louise 

Pilgrimage  with  a  milliner's  needle,  il  '17 
Stokes  $1.50  92 

"The  author,  a  Danish  woman,  learned  the 
milliner's  trade  at  an  early  age.  Having  a 
great  desire  to  see  the  world,  she  traveled  from 
city  to  city  in  Germany,  Russia,  France  and 
South  Africa,  plying  her  trade  to  pay  her  ex- 
penses. She  finally  came  to  New  York  where  she 
had  many  adventures.  Her  narrative  is  per- 
sonal and  naively  frank  in  giving  emotional  de- 
tails of  her  own  life.  It  is  more  readable  as 
autobiography  than  as  travel."     A.  L.  A.  bkl. 


62 


STANDARD   CATALOG 


Ward,  Mrs  Humphry 

A  writer's  recollections.   2v  '18  Harper  $6 

92 

Appeared  in  Harper's  magazine,  V136-7  Jan- 
uary-October,   19 18 

"The  pages  of  these  volumes  are  filled  with 
great  names.  With  the  beautiful  English  lake 
country  and  Oxford  as  a  setting,  Mrs  Ward  tells 
of  her  grandfather,  Arnold  of  Rugby,  of  visitors 
at  Fox  How,  of  her  uncle  Matthew  Arnold,  and 
of  the  coterie  of  friends  with  whom  she  was 
surrounded  in  Oxford  from  1868-1880.  The  sec- 
ond volume  is  the  story  of  Mrs  Ward  the  novel- 
ist. Interesting  chapters  are  given  to  'Robert 
Elsmere,'  'Marcella'  and  'Eleanor.'  "     Pittsburgh 

An  epilogue  brings  the  story  down  to    1908 

Ward,  Mary  Augusta  (Arnold).  See  Ward, 
Mrs  Humphry 

Washington,  Booker  Taliaferro 

Up  from  slavery;  an  autobiography.  '01 
Doubleday  $1.50  92 

"In  no  other  respect  is  this  book  more  im- 
pressive and  effective  than  in  that  of  _  his  com- 
plete identification  of  himself  with  his  people. 
.  .  .  The  vicissitudes  and  achievements  of  the 
Tuskegee  school  are  exhibited  in  a  _  series  of 
pictures  and  contrasts  that  must  sometimes  make 
the  reader's  heart  beat  fast  and  sometimes  dim 
his  eyes."      (Nation,  1901)  Pittsburgh 

Scott,  E.  J.,  and  Stowe,  L.  B.  Booker  T. 
Washington,  builder  of  a  civilization, 
il  '16  Doubleday  $2  92 

"The  official  biography  by  Washington's 
trusted  secretary  and  a  grandson  of  Harriet 
Beecher  Stowe,  supplementing  'Up  from  slav- 
ery,' and  'My  larger  education.'  Each  chapter 
presents  a  complete  phase  of  the  later  life  of 
this  famous  Negro,  the  information  about  Tus- 
kegee institute  being  of  particular  value  and  in- 
terest."     Cleveland 

Washington,  George 

Ford,  P.  L.  True  George  Washington,  il 
10th  ed  '03  Lippincott  $2  92 

"Aims  to  make  Washington  'a  man  rather 
than    a  historical   figure.'  "  A.   L.   A. 

Ford,  W.  C.    George  Washington.   (Bea- 
con biographies)  '10  Small  60c  92 
"Small,    compact    biography,    considering     the 
political    and    military     career      of    Washington 
rather  than   his  personality."      A.   L.   A.   sup. 

Hapgood,  Norman.  George  Washing- 
ton. (Standard  school  lib.)  '01  Mac- 
millan  60c  92 

"Deals  mainly  with  Washington's  life  before 
his  presidency,  the  years  after  1789  being  but 
briefly  surveyed."      A.   L.  A. 

Irving,  Washington.  Life  of  George 
Washington.  (Knickerbocker  ed.)  8v 
Putnam  $10  92 

"Such  charming,  faithful,  truthful  pictures  of 
the  great  hero  as  should  carry  knowledge  of 
him,  of  the  battles  he  fought,  of  his  large  self- 
denying,  unswerving  patriotism,  of  the  purity  of 
his  life,  into  every  household."  (D.  G.  Mitchell) 
A.   L.  A. 

Same.  5  v.  $7.50 

Lodge,  H.  C.  George  Washington. 
(American  statesman)  2v  '89  Hough- 
ton $2.70  92 

"Written  from  abundant  knowledge,  embodies 
excellent  judgment  and  temper,  and  a  strong 
desire  to  be   accurate."     A.   L.  A. 

Scudder,  H.  E.  George  Washington. 
(Riverside  school  lib.)  '89  Houghton 
80c  92 

"Recognized  ...  as  one  of  the  best  of  the 
lives  of  Washington  for  young  readers,  and 
among    the    best    of    the    one-volume    lives  .   .   . 


for  readers  of  any  age.  It  embodies  no  original 
work,  but  is  judicious,  fair,  cautious,  and  of 
admirable  literary  quality."  (Larned's  Liter- 
ature of  American  history)    Pittsburgh 

Wilson,  Woodrow.    George  Washington. 

il  '03  Harper  $2;  popular  ed  $1.50        92 

"While    not    ignoring    the    everyday    character 

of    Washington's     services,    lays     less    emphasis 

on  this  phase  than  Ford  does."     A.  L.  A. 

Wister,  Owen.    Seven  ages  of  Washing- 
ton, il  '07  Macmillan  $1.50  92 

"The  author  concerns  himself  with  the  man, 
only  incidentally  with  the  soldier  or  statesman, 
but  does  not  neglect  background  or  the  final 
impress  upon  history.  A  delightful  biography 
giving  a  finished  portrait,  broad  and  vigorous  in 
treatment."      A.    L.    A.    sup. 

See  also  in  connection  with  Washington,  Paul 
Wilstach's  "Mount  Vernon,"  19 16,  Double- 
day,    $2 

Watts-Dunton,  Theodore 

Old  familiar  faces.  '16  Dutton  $2  92 

"Personal  recollections  and  criticisms  of  the 
work  of  the  Rossettis,  George  Borrow,  Tenny- 
son, William  Morris  and  others  of  the  author's 
illustrious  contemporaries  to  whom  he  showed 
his  great  genius  for  friendship.  First  pub- 
lished in  the  Athenaeum.  Excellent  portraits." 
N.Y.   state  lib. 

Hake,  Thomas,  and  Compton-Rickett, 
Arthur.  Life  and  letters  of  Theodore 
Watts-Dunton;  including  some  person- 
al reminiscences  by  Clara  Watts-Dun- 
ton. 2v  il  '16  Putnam  $7.50  92 
"An  interesting  account  of  the  Victorian 
writer  who  continued  the  tradition  of  George 
Borrow  in  'The  coming  of  love'  and  'Alwyn,' 
his  poems  and  novel  of  Romany  life;  who  was 
the  close  friend  of  Swinburne  and  Rossetti, 
and  whose  'Renascence  of  wonder'  constitutes 
the  most  important  criticism  of  the  romantic 
movement  in  modern  literature.  The  book  is 
at  once  gossipy  and  reserved,  shows  intimate 
knowledge  of  Watts-Dunton's  personality  and 
criticizes  his  literary  work  with  discrimination. 
A  chapter  which  appeals  to  the  imagination  is 
that  contributed  by  the  beautiful  and  devoted 
young  woman  whom  the  critic  married  in  1905 
when   he  was  in  his  seventies."      Cleveland 

Webster,  Daniel 

Fisher,    S.    G.     True    Daniel    Webster,    il 
maps  '11  Lippincott  $2  92 

"A  carefully  studied  and  only  slightly  biased 
biography  in  which  the  admirable  drawing  of 
the  political,  economic  and  social  background  is 
as  valuable  as  the  placing  of  Webster  in  true 
relation  to  it.  Excellent  testimony  in  disproof 
of  traditional  beliefs  concerning  Webster's 
private  life  and  habits  is  adduced,  and  the  view 
of  his  position  on  abolition  differs  from  that 
of  Lodge.  Illustrations  chiefly  from  portraits 
and  satisfactory  index."     A.   L.  A.  bkl. 

Lodge,  H.  C.   Daniel  Webster.  (American 
statesman)  '92  Houghton  $1.35  92 

"Appreciative  study  of  a  well  informed 
scholar.  Points  out  faults  as  well  as  merits.' 
A.  L.  A. 

McMaster,    T.    B.      Daniel    Webster.      '02 

Century  $2  92 

"After    boyhood    limited    to    events    of    public 

life,   narrated  without  critical  estimate."      (N.Y. 

state  lib.)   A.   L.  A. 

Ogg,   F.  A.    Daniel  Webster.    (American 
crisis    biographies)    il   '14   Jacobs    $1.50 

92 
Bibliography,   P421-5 

"Devoted  principally  to  Webster's  public  ac- 
tivities with  less  emphasis  upon  the  personal 
characteristics  of  the  man.  The  author  has 
made  liberal  use  of  the  Curtis  and  the  Lodge 
biographies,  and  of  standard  histories  and 
monographs;    but   the   chief   source    of    data   has 


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63 


Webster,  Daniel — Continued 

been  Webster's  own  writings  and  those  of  con- 
temporaries."     Book   rev.   digest 

"Differs  from  Lodge  in  certain  of  its  judg- 
ments and  is  fuller,  but  is  inferior  in  literary 
quality.  Fisher  is  concerned  more  with  the  in- 
timately human  side  of  the  man."  A.  L.  A. 
bkl. 

Welles,  Gideon 

Diary  of  Gideon  Welles.  3v  il  '11  Hough- 
ton $12  l     c  92 

"The  private  diary  kept  by  the  Secretary  oi 
the  navy  in  the  cabinets  of  Lincoln  and  John- 
son, 1861-1869,  giving  the  unvarnished  opin- 
ions of  an  able,  upright,  tho  frequently  pre- 
judiced man  on  public  men  and  events  during 
the  Civil  war  and  reconstruction  periods.  Il- 
lustrations from  portraits.  Appeared  in  part  in 
the   Atlantic."      N.Y.    state    lib. 

"His  portrayal  of  Johnson  is  the  most  favor- 
able yet  given.  The  work  is  over  long  and  too 
expensive  for  the  average  library,  but  as  a 
source  book  of  incalculable  value  is  indis- 
pensable to  all  students  of  the  Civil  war  and 
the   reconstruction   period."     A.   L.   A.  bkl. 

Wellington,  Arthur  Wellesley,  1st  duke  of 
Fitchett,  W.    H.    The    great   duke.   2v   il 
maps  '11  Scribner  $3.50  92 

"Excellent  popular  life  story  of  Wellington 
from  his  birth  to  the  end  of  the  Waterloo  cam- 
paign, with  the  briefest  possible  consideration 
of  his  later  career."  A.  L.  A.  sup. 
Morris,  W.  O.  Wellington,  soldier  and 
statesman,  and  the  revival  of  the  mil- 
itary power  of  England.  (Heroes  of  the 
nations)  il  maps  '04  Putnam  $1.50  92 
"By  an  acknowledged  authority  on  the  Na- 
poleonic wars.  Deals  mainly  with  the  military 
side  of  Wellington's  career  and  discusses  dis- 
puted questions  of  the  Peninsular  war  and  the 
Waterloo  campaign."  (Pittsburgh)  A.  L.  A. 
sup. 

Wenckebach,  Carla 

Mtiller,  M.  M.  K.  E.  Carla  Wenckebach, 
pioneer.  '08  Ginn  $1.50  92 

"Carla  Wenckebach  (1853-1902)  was  head  of 
the  German  department  of  Wellesley  college,  a 
leader  in  the  reform  of  language  teaching  and 
author  of  numerous  textbooks.  A  remarkable 
woman  in  many  ways,  she  exercised  a  strong 
influence  in  the  college,  where  she  was  familiarly 
called  the  'Little  Bismarck.'  "      Pittsburgh 

Wesley,  John 

Heart  of  John  Wesley's  journal;  with  an 
introd.  by  H.  P.  Hughes,  and  an  ap- 
preciation by  Augustine  Birrell,  ed.  by 
P.  L.  Parker  (Wesley  bi-centenary  ed.) 
'03  Revell  $1.50  92 

Condensation  of  the  'Journal,'  hitherto  pub- 
lished in  four  volumes 

See  also  "Letters,"    1915,    Doran,   $2.50 

Winchester,  C.  T.  Life  of  John  Wesley 
il  '06  Macmillan  $1.50  92 

"An  interesting  popular  presentation  of  the 
personal  side  of  Wesley's  career,  against  a  back- 
ground of  eighteenth  century  conditions." 
(N.Y.  state  lib.)  A.  L.  A.  sup. 

Westinghouse,  George 

Leupp,  F.  E.  George  Westinghouse,  his 
life  and  achievements,   il  '18   Little  $3 

92 

"The  career  of  the  inventor  of  alternating 
current  machinery,  the  air-brake  in  use  on  rail- 
roads, and  many  of  the  things  which  make  daily 
life  safe  and  comfortable  for  us.  He  gives  us 
an  intimate  picture  of  the  man  and  his  family 
life,  as  well  as  a  history  of  his  methods  of  work 
and  his  inventions."     A.  L.  A.  bkl. 


Wheeler,  Candace 

Yesterdays  in  a  busy  life.  '18  Harper 
$3  92 

"Mrs  Wheeler  who  was  one  of  the  pioneers 
of  textile  art  in  this  country  was  associated  with 
many  of  the  artists  and  literary  men  of  her  time 
and  her  recollections  abound  with  anecdotes  of 
celebrities  ranging  from  William  Cullen  Bryant 
to  Anders  Zorn."      Pratt   quarterly 

White,  Andrew  Dickson 

Autobiography.  2v  '05  Century  $7.50  92 
"As  president  of  Cornell  university,  minister 
to  Russia,  minister  and  ambassador  to  Ger- 
many,, and  delegate  to  the  Peace  conference  of 
The  Hague,  Mr  White  has  rendered  dis- 
tinguished services  to  his  country.  His  auto- 
biography covers  fully  his  two  careers,  ac- 
ademic and  political.  It  is  valuable  also  for  its 
recollections  of  noteworthy  people,  including 
nearly  all  the  men  who  have  made  recent  con- 
tinental   history."       Pittsburgh 

Whiteing,  Richard 

My  harvest.    '15  Dodd  $2.50  92 

"Reminiscences  of  an  English  journalist, 
containing  pen-portraits  of  remarkable  personal- 
ities of  his  acquaintance  and  condensed 
sketches  of  the  social  and  political  movements 
of  the  last  half  century."     Pratt   quarterly 

Whitlock,  Brand 

Forty  years  of  it.  '14  Appleton  $1.75  92 
"Mr  Whitlock  served  for  several  terms  as 
mayor  of  Toledo — the  successor  of  'Golden 
Rule'  Jones.  He  was  also  closely  associated 
with  Governor  Altgeld  of  Illinois,  Mayor  Tom 
Johnson  of  Cleveland,  and  other  radicals.  It  is 
thru  his  personal  reminiscences  of  these  leaders 
and  of  the  period  of  Middle  West  democracy 
for  which  they  stood  that  the  book  makes  its 
strongest    appeal."      Pittsburgh 

Whitman,  Sidney 

Things  I  remember;  the  recollections  of  a 
political  writer  in  the  capitals  of  Eu- 
rope, il  '17  Stokes  $2.50  92 

"As  special  correspondent  for  the  New  York 
Herald,  the  author  had  unusual  opportunities 
for  making  the  acquaintance  of  eminent  men. 
His  recollections  include  interesting  impressions 
of  Bismarck,  of  whom  he  was  a  personal  friend, 
of  Prince  von  Billow,  Dr  Theodor  Herzl,  W.  T. 
Stead,  Max  Nordau,  M  de  Blowitz  and  many 
others."     Pittsburgh 

"Thru  his  long  continued  and  intimate  ac- 
quaintance with  European  affairs  and  statesmen, 
he  is  able  to  indicate  some  of  the  underlying 
causes  of  the  war."     A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

Whitman,  Walt 

Burroughs,  John.  Whitman;  a  study.  '96 
Houghton  $1.75;  Riverside  ed  $1.35      92 

Enthusiastic    appreciation 

"Careful  and  extremely  sympathetic  study  of 
Whitman's   character   and   poetry."      Pittsburgh 

Carpenter,  G.  R.  Walt  Whitman.  (Eng- 
lish men  of  letters)  '09  Macmillan  75c 

92 

"Well  balanced  and  eminently  fair  biography, 
in  which  Whitman's  unusual  rhythmical  forma 
and  his  attitude  toward  certain  subjects  are 
treated  with  fulness,  frankness,  insight  and  dis- 
crimination. The  best  of  the  brief  works,  but 
not  to  be  chosen  before  Bliss  Perry's  life  when 
a  single  volume   must  suffice."     A.   L.  A.   sup. 

Perry,  Bliss.  Walt  Whitman:  his  life  and 
work.  (American  men  of  letters)  il  '06 
Houghton  $1.35  92 

"Careful  biographical  and  critical  study,  the 
most  desirable  for  the  single  purchase  for  the 
public  library.  Altogether  the  volume  will 
probably  take  its  place  as  the  sane  and  authori- 
tative life  of  Whitman  for  many  years  to  come." 
(Nation)   A.   L.  A.  sup. 

See   also  Traubel's   "With   Walt  Whitman   in 


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Whitman,  Walt — Continued 

Camden,"  vi-3,  Doubleday,  $9.  Mr  Traubel 
undertook  to  "give  verbatim  his  talks  with 
Whitman  from  March  28,  1888,  to  the  poet's 
death,  together  with  such  incidents  of  the  poet's 
daily  life  as  came  within  his  observation,  all 
just  as  they  occurred  without  selection,  trim- 
ming, or  comment."  John  Erskine  in  Yale  rev. 
4:415;  also  Anne  Gilchrist's  Letters,  1918,  Dou- 
bleday,  $2 

Whittier,  John  Greenleaf 

Carpenter,  G.  R.  John  Greenleaf  Whittier. 
(American  men  of  letters)  '03  Hough- 
ton $1.35  92 
List  of  Whittier's  writings,  P304-7 
"Contributes  some  new  material  and  em- 
phasizes political  and  reformatory  aspects  of  his 
life  more  than  literary."  (N.Y.  state  lib.) 
A.  L.  A. 

Higginson,  T.  W.  John  Greenleaf  Whit- 
tier. (English  men  of  letters)  '02  Mac- 
millan  75c  92 

"By  a  friend  of  forty  years  standing.  Tho 
brief,  less  than  200  pages,  presents  a  well 
rounded  picture  of  the  man,  poet,  politician  and 
reformer."      (N.Y.  state   lib.)   A.   L.  A. 

Pickard,  S.  T.  Life  and  letters  of  John 
Greenleaf  Whittier.  '07  rev  ed  Hough- 
ton $2.75  92 

Bibliography,    P787-90 

"The  standard  biography."     (Johnston)  A.  L.  A. 

"  'The  book  has  the  merit  of  simplicity,  a 
Quaker  plainness  making  it  absolutely  trans- 
parent for  the  facts  and  Whittier's  personal 
image  to  shine  thru.  ...  It  is  very  rich  in 
information,  very  strong  in  facts.'  "  (Nation, 
1894)    Pittsburgh 

Willard,  Frances  Elizabeth 

Strachey,  Ray.  Frances  Willard;  her  life 
and  work,  il  '13  Reyell  $1.50  92 

"The  story  of  the  childhood  of  the  great  re- 
former, her  education  and  quest  for  culture, 
her  longing  for  independence  of  both  thought 
and  deed,  her  experiences  as  a  teacher,  her 
work  for  Northwestern  university,  her  crusade 
against  intemperance  and  her  organization  of 
temperance  work,  her  work  for  woman's  suf- 
frage and  for  prohibition,  her  efforts  to  cleanse 
the  body  politic,  her  work  for  temperance  in 
England  is  told  with  a  brevity  and  cogency 
wholly  admirable."  (Boston  Transcript,  1913) 
Pittsburgh 

William  I,  the  Conqueror,  king  of  England 
Freeman,  E.  A.    William  the  Conqueror. 
(Twelve    English   statesman)   '94   Mac- 
millan  80c  92 

Stenton,  F.  M.  William  the  Conqueror, 
and  the  rule  of  the  Normans.  (Heroes 
of  the  nations)  il  maps  '08  Putnam  $1.50 

92 
"This  scholarly  biography  is  a  valuable  sup- 
plement to  Freeman's  briefer  work.  It  presents 
a  more  impartial  view  and  makes  use  of  the 
results  of  research  made  since  Freeman's  book 
was   written."      A.    L.    A.    sup. 

William    II,   emperor    of   Germany,    (abdi- 
cated 1918) 
Davis,  A.  N.    The  kaiser  as  I  knew  him. 
il  '18  Harper  $2  92 

"The  kaiser  and  the  German  royal  family  as 
interpreted  by  their  American  dentist  who  re- 
mained in  Berlin  until  early  this  year.  He 
evaluates  the  kaiser  at  the  usual  American  rate, 
and  shows  that  the  kaiser  entirely  misjudged 
America  and  Americans.  Gossipy,  interesting 
and  almost  too  good  to  be  true.  Has  many 
pictures  of  the  royal  family.  Published  in 
Chicago   daily   news."      A.    L.   A.   bkl. 

Hammer,  S.  C.  William  the  Second,  as 
seen    in    contemporary    documents    and 


judged  on  evidence  of  his  own  speeches. 
'17  Houghton  $1.50  92 

Literature  concerning  William   II,   P263-4 

"'The  best  psychological  study  of  the  kaiser.' 
Nation 

The  author  is  a  Norwegian  historian  who  has 
followed  the  kaiser  at  close  hand  for  thirty 
years."      Pratt    quarterly 

See  in  connection  with  this  Christian  Gauss' 
"German  emperor  as  shown  in  his  public  utter- 
ances,"  1915,  Scribner,  $1.25 

Hill,  D.  J.  Impressions  of  the  kaiser.  '18 
Harper   $2  92 

"The  policies  and  ideals  of  the  kaiser,  the 
chief  of  which  is  to  be  esteemed  an  efficient  war 
lord,  are  thoughtfully  set  forth  by  the  author 
who  spent  the  years  1888-90  and  1908-14  in  Ger- 
many. In  the  first  period  he  saw  the  kaiser  as 
his  people  saw  him;  in  the  second,  as  American 
ambassador,  he  had  intimate  contact  with  him." 
Pittsburgh 

"Not  merely  a  book  of  recollections  but  a 
scholarly  exposition  of  German  imperialism." 
Pratt   quarterly 

Illustrative  documents  appended.  Chapters 
one   to    four    reprinted    from    Harper's    magazine 

Saunders,  George.  Builder  and  blunder- 
er; a  study  of  Emperor  William's  char- 
acter ana  foreign  policy.  '14  Dutton 
$1.25  92 

"A  fair,  frank  characterization,  written  since 
the  war  began,  from  the  point  of  view  of  an 
English  newspaper  correspondent  who  was  for 
twenty  years  a  resident  of  Berlin  and  had  ex- 
ceptional opportunities  for  getting  behind  the 
scenes.  The  author  gives  the  kaiser  his  due  as 
a  nation  builder,  but  maintains  that  the  develop- 
ment of  his  promising  character  has  been  a 
supreme  disappointment  and  his  foreign  policy 
and  'German  world  policy'  a  perpetual  menace." 
Cleveland 

Topham,  Anne.  Memories  of  the  Kaiser's 
court,     il  '14  Dodd  $1.25  92 

"The  writer  .  .  .  shows  much  insight  into 
German  life.  She  was  appointed  in  1902 
teacher  of  English  to  the  daughter  of  the  Em- 
peror William.  .  .  .  (Her  book)  is  far  more 
trustworthy  than  most  of  its  kind,  and  her 
anecdotes  of  the  kaiser  and  his  family  bear  the 
stamp  of  sincerity."  (Athenaeum,  19 14)  Pitts- 
burgh 

William  I,  the  Silent,  prince  of  Orange 

Putnam,      Ruth.       William      the      Silent, 

prince   of   Orange    (1533-1584)    and   the 

revolt  of  the  Netherlands.     (Heroes  of 

the  nations)    il  maps  '11  Putnam  $1.50 

92 

"Scholarly  and  interesting  biography  based  on 
author's  two-volume  work  (1895)  but  rewritten 
and  embodying  the  results  of  later  researches. 
Well  illustrated  from  portraits,  old  prints  and 
medals.  Maps  and  bibliography."  N.Y.  state 
lib. 

Wilson,  James  Harrison 

Under  the  old  flag.  2v  '12  Appleton  $6.50 

92 
"The  unusually  interesting  recollections  of 
the  author's  varied  service  in  the  Civil  war  and 
his  impressions  oft  its  great  commanders  occupy 
the  greater  part  of  this  biography,  which  also 
includes  in  shorter  compass  accounts  of  his  part 
in  the  war  with  Spain  and  the  suppression  of 
the  Boxers  in  China."      N.Y.  state  lib. 

"In  fulness  and  readability,  'Under  the  old 
flag'  is  the  best  work  of  its  kind  [19 12]  that 
has  appeared  since  General  Howard  gave  us  his 
two  volumes  of  autobiography  five  years  ago.  In 
'human  interest'  which  it  is  the  present  fashion 
to  clamor  for,  it  would  be  difficult  to  indicate 
how  the  book  could  be  improved."  (P.  F. 
Bicknell   in    Dial)    St.    Louis 


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Wilson,  Woodrow 
Archer,     William.      Peace-president.     '19 
Holt  $1  .92 

"A  cordial  English  estimate  and  appreciation 
of  the  president  as  a  man,  writer,  politician  and 
statesman.  The  concluding  chapter  considers 
his  attitude  toward  a  league  of  nations,  and  the 
appendix  contains  the  fourteen  points.  Brief 
and  comprehensive;  agreeable  style.  Hale's 
'Woodrow  Wilson'  is  not  up  to  date  (19 12) 
Harris  and  Low  treat  the  subject  principally 
from  the  angle  of  statesmanship;  Ford  and 
Robinson  and  West  are  not  so  comprehensive." 
A.  L.  A.  bkl. 
Ford,  H.  J.  Woodrow  Wilson,  the  man 
and  his  work,   il  '16  Appleton  $1.75      92 

Appendix:  The  place  of  the  president  in  our 
political    system,   by   Woodrow    Wilson 

"  'I  have  tried  to  give  a  systematic  account 
of  what  Woodrow  Wilson  has  done,  and  of  the 
principles  on  which  he  acts.  Besides  recounting 
events,  I  have  endeavored  to  exhibit  them  in 
their  bearings  upon  the  public  welfare,  apart 
from  considerations  of  party  advantage;  and 
also  to  point  out  their  constitutional  signifi- 
cance.' Where  possible  President  Wilson's 
views  are  given  thru  judiciously  chosen  ex- 
tracts from  his  speeches  and  writings.  While  un- 
doubtedly a  campaign  document  in  intent,  the 
book  is  unprejudiced,  almost  neutral  in  tone. 
The  author  is  professor  of  politics  at  Princeton 
university."      Cleveland 

Halevy,  Daniel.  President  Wilson.  '19 
Lane  $1.50  92 

"The  larger  part  of  M  Hftlevy's  book  is  nat- 
urally devoted  to  the  president's  foreign  policy. 
...  Of  Mr  Wilson's  personality  M  fialeVy 
says  directly  but  little.  He  yet  leaves  a  vivid 
impression  of  the  portrait  that  has  been  form- 
ing in  his  mind.  It  is  of  a  man  who  has  con- 
sistently grown.  .  .  .  He  seems  to  give  him 
credit  for  a  very  American  combination  of  in- 
tense idealism  on  the  one  hand  and  intense 
practicality  on  the  other."  (New  Republic) 
Pittsburgh 

Harris,  H.  W.  President  Wilson,  il  '17 
Stokes  $1.75  92 

"Will  interest  Americans  primarily  because  it 
gives  so  clear  and  well-defined  a  view  from  an 
English  standpoint  of  President  Wilson  and  his- 
political  policies  and  leadership.  Also  because] 
of  its  unprejudiced  and  accurate  presentation  01 
American  history  from  1912-1917,  and  resume 
of   Mr  Wilson's  life."      N.Y.   Times  22:269 

"A  very  compact  and  well-balanced  book. 
.  .  .  The  impersonal  temper  in  which  with  ex* 
pert  brevity  the  author  has  aligned  and  ap- 
praised the  acts  and  objects  of  the  President's 
domestic  policy  will  be  gratifying  to  his  readers 
on  this  side.  From  his  ability  to  look  at  both 
sides  of  a  question  with  admirable  disinterested- 
ness, Mr  Harris  has  approached  a  more  com- 
plete standard  of  interpreting  the  President  than 
Professor  Ford  has  succeeded  in  doing."  L.  E. 
Robinson   in   Bookman   46:201 

Low,  A.  M.  Woodrow  Wilson:  an  inter- 
pretation.   '18  Little  $2  92 

Mr  Low's  point  of  view  is  that  of  a  con- 
temporary foreign  observer,  who,  while  having 
the  benefit  of  long  residence  in  the  United 
States  and  an  intimate  knowledge  of  its  people 
and  politics,  may  justly  claim  to  be  uninfluenced 
by  personal  or  political  considerations.  Since 
1906  he  has  been  the  chief  American  corre- 
spondent of  the  London  Morning  Post,  and  he 
is  the  author  of  a  two-volume  work  dealing  with 
the   psychology   of   the   American   people. 

"I  have  made  no  attempt  to  write  either  his- 
tory or  a  biography.  What  I  have  endeavored 
to  do  is  to  interpret  the  character  and  motives 
of  Mr  Wilson  as  revealed  by  his  speeches,  writ- 
ings and  statesmanship,  letting  the  reader  draw 
his  own  conclusions  from  the  evidence  pre- 
sented."     A.    Maurice    Low 

"The  'Foreign  policy  of  Woodrow  Wilson, 
1913-1917';   Macmillan,   $1.75,  by   E.  E.  Robinson 


and  V.  J.  West,  is  an  excellent  reference  vol- 
ume outlining  Wilson's  foreign  policy,  giving  a 
chronology  of  the  more  important  events,  and 
extracts  from  ninety  statements  and  speeches 
of  the  President  and  his  secretaries  of  state 
announcing  and  carrying  forward  his  policy. 
Purposes  to  show  that  it  has  been  a  consistent 
development  of  his  principles."  N.Y.  state  lib. 
See  also  some  collections  of  President  Wil- 
son's public  papers.  Good  collections  are  pub- 
lished by  Harper  and  Doran 

Winslow,  Anna  Green 

Diary;  ed.  by  A.  M.  Earle.  '94  Houghton 
$1.35  92 

"Journal  of  a  little  Boston  school  girl,  sup- 
plemented by  editor's  notes.  Entertaining  pic- 
ture of  domestic  life  in  Boston  a  century  ago." 
(N.Y.   state  lib.)   A.   L.  A. 

Wise,  Isaac  Mayer 

May,  M.  B.  Isaac  Mayer  Wise,  the 
founder  of  American  Judaism;  a  biog- 
raphy, il  '16  Putnam  $2  92 

"The  first  complete  biography  of  Rabbi  Wise, 
the  great  organizer  of  American  Judaism,  writ- 
ten in  anticipation  of  the  centenary  of  his 
birth  by  his  grandson,  Judge  May.  The  author 
has  purposely  omitted  a  discussion  of  his 
theology  and  literary  work,  tho  a  list  of  the  lat- 
ter is  given  at  the  end."      A.   L.  A.  bkl. 

"It  portrays  chiefly  the  personal  side  of  Dr 
Wise  and  indicates  clearly  how  much  the  re- 
form movement  in  Judaism  is  a  social  and 
political  movement  and  how  little  it  is  a  genu- 
inely religious  movement."  (Adapted  from 
Dial)    Pratt    quarterly 

Wister,  Sarah 

Sally  Wister's  journal,  a  true  narrative; 
being  a  Quaker  maiden's  account  of  her 
experiences  with  officers  of  the  con- 
tinental army,  1777-1778;  ed.  by  A.  C. 
Myers.    '02  Ferris  $2  92 

"Of  some  value  as  a  historical  document, 
but  more  interesting  as  a  picture  of  a  genuine 
girlhood."      (N.Y.   state   lib.)    A.   L.,  A. 

Wolsey,  Thomas,  cardinal 

Creighton,  Mandell.  Cardinal  Wolsey. 
(Twelve  English  statesmen)  '88  Mac- 
millan 80c  92 
"Of  all  English  statesmen  there  is  perhaps 
none  of  whose  character  and  career  it  is  so  dif- 
ficult to  form  a  just  estimate  as  Cardinal  Wol- 
sey. .  .  .  Mr  Creighton  has  succeeded  in  ex- 
plaining the  inconsistencies  and  perplexities  of 
Wolsey's  career  and  helping  us  to  a  correct 
standard  of  judgment."  (Nation,  1888)  Pitts- 
burgh 

Woolman,  John 

Journal;  with  an  introd.  by  J.  G.  Whit- 
tier.  71   Houghton  $1.20  92 

"Woolman  (1720-1772)  was  an  American 
Quaker  preacher  who  spent  the  greater  part  of 
his  life  in  journeying  from  place  to  place.  The 
journal  is  more  a  record  of  his  inner  life  than 
of  his  outward  wanderings."     Pittsburgh 

Wordsworth,  Dorothy 

Journals;  ed.  by  William  Knight.  2v  '97 
Macmillan  $4  92 

"Includes  journals  written  at  Alfoxden  and 
Grasmere,  1798-1803,  and  of  the  Scotch  and 
continental  journeys  made  by  Wordsworth  and 
his  sister.  Her  exquisite  descriptions  of  Gras- 
mere and  its  district  are  interesting  in  them- 
selves and  cast  a  flood  of  light  on  the  circum- 
stances under  which  her  brother's  poems  were 
composed,  while  some  of  her  descriptions  were 
incorporated  by  Wordsworth  in  his  prose  works. 

'Renews  and  deepens  our  knowledge  of  one 
of  the  most  beautiful  relationships  in  all  litera- 
ture.' "     (Academy,   1897)    Pittsburgh 

Imported   to    order 


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Wordsworth,  William 

Bensusan,  S.  L.  William  Wordsworth, 
his  homes  and  haunts.    '12    Dodge  75c 

92 

Harper,  G.  M.    William  Wordsworth,  his 

life,    works     and    influence.      2v    il    '16 

Scribner  $6.50  92 

"An  important  scholarly  study  which  prom- 
ises to  be  the  definitive  biography.  The  author 
has  been  unsparing  in  his  researches  and  has 
come  into  possession  of  some  new  facts.  He 
writes  sympathetically  and  adequately  of  the 
poet's  later  years,  and  dwells  more  fully  than 
any  other  biographer  has  done  on  the  develop- 
ing influences  and  enthusiasms  of  his  French 
revolutionary   days."      A.    L.   A.   bkl. 

Myers,  F.  W.  H.  Wordsworth.  (English 
men   of  letters)   '81   Harper  75c  92 

"By  the  best  exponent  of  the  Wordsworthian 
philosophy."      Pittsburgh 

Wyclif,   John 

Sergeant,  Lewis.  John  Wyclif.  (Heroes 
of  the  nations)  '93  Putnam  $1.50  92 
"Picture  of  John  Wyclif  as  an  Oxford  school- 
man, and  of  the  schoolmen  in  general  as 
pioneers  of  the  reformation  of  religion  and  the 
revival  of  learning."      (Preface)   A.  L.  A. 

Yeats,    William    Butler 

Reveries  over  childhood  and  youth,  il  '16 
Macmillan  $2  92 

"Fragmentary  memories  written  down  to 
please  the  author  and  appealing  to  those  inter- 
ested in  the  man  or  his  work.  The  style  is 
unfinished,  sometimes  un  grammatical  and  un- 
worthy of  a  poet  noted  for  beauty  of  expres- 
sion; but  withal  the  book  is  imbued  with  a 
certain  inconsequential  charm,  the  charm  of  a 
unique  individual  who,  judging  from  these  con- 
cluding words,  has   not  even  yet   found  himself. 

'When  I  think  of  all  the  books  I  have  read, 
and  of  the  wise  words  I  have  heard  spoken,  and 
of  the  anxiety  I  have  had,  all  life  weighed  in 
the  scale  of  my  own  life,  seems  to  me  a  prep- 
aration for  something  that  never  happens.'  " 
Cleveland 

Hone,  J.  M.  William  Butler  Yeats,  the 
poet  in  contemporary  Ireland.  (Irish- 
men of  today)  '16  Dodd  $1  92 

"A  history  of  Mr  Yeats'  life  and  develop- 
ment, especially  as  an  Irishman,  his  relations 
with  the  Celtic  renaissance,  the  Gaelic  league, 
the  Sinn  Fein,  etc.  After  detaching  himself 
from  Irish  interests,  according  to  Mr  Hone, 
Yeats  is  now  absorbed  by  the  politics,  social 
ideals  and  literature  of  his  country."  Library 
association  record 


232     Lives  of  Jesus  Christ 

Jesus  Christ 

Anderson,  F.  L.     Man  of  Nazareth.     '14 
Macmillan  $1  232 

"Not  a  biography  of  Jesus,  nor  an  exposition 
of  his  teachings,  nor  a  study  of  sources.  Rather 
a  study  of  Jesus  in  relation  to  his  mission  and 
his  age,  of  the  important  problems  confronting 
him  and  his  solution  of  them.  Sane  in  tone, 
reverent,  recognizes  but  does  not  force  the 
viewpoint  of  higher  criticism;  a  book  for  stu- 
dents who  want  a  modern  setting  of  the  life  of 
Christ,  and  for  intelligent  laymen."  A.  L.  A. 
bkl. 

"A  fresh  and  enthusiastic  treatment  of  various 
problems  related  to  Christ,  the  most  original  part 
ojF  the  book  being  chapters  concerning  the  Mes- 
siahship.  The  author  stresses  the  point  that  not 
Christianity  but  the  personality  of  Christ  is  the 
power  behind   Christian   history."      Cleveland 


Edersheim,  Alfred.  Life  and  times  of 
Jesus  the  Messiah.  8th  ed  '04  Long- 
mans $3.50  232 

Farrar,  F.  W.  Life  of  Christ.  '94? 
Dutton   $2  232 

List    of  authorities,  P31-2 

Fouard,   C.    H.     Christ,   the   son    of  God. 

new  ed  2v  '08  Longmans  $2.50  232 

"Standard  life  for  Catholic  readers."  A.  L.  A. 
sup. 

"Work    of    an    able    Roman     Catholic  priest, 

with  a  preface  by  Cardinal  Manning."  Pitts- 
burgh 

Geikie,  J.  C.  Life  and  words  of  Christ, 
new  rev  ed  Appleton  $1.25  232 

"Expository  lectures  or  sermons  on  the 
gospels."      A.    L.   A. 

Gilbert,  G.  H.  Jesus.  '12  Macmillan 
$1.50  232 

"The  best  popular  study  of  Jesus  and  the 
gospels  in  our  language.  .  .  .  First  'the 
sources'  are  treated  and  their  historical  con- 
tribution estimated,  then  the  'historical  Jesus'  is 
pictured  in  a  positive  and  persuasive  sketch,  to 
which  succeeds  a  frank  and  helpful  treatment  of 
'the  legendary  Jesus'.  The  material  of  the  latter 
division  includes  the  birth-stories,  the  bulk  of 
the  miracles,  and  the  legend  of  the  material 
resurrection."   (Amer.  jour,  theology)  Pittsburgh. 

Gilbert,  G.  H.  Jesus  for  the  men  of  to- 
day. '17  Doran  $1  232 
"Reverent,  poetic,  brief  retelling  of  the  life 
of  Jesus  against  the  colorful  background  of 
Palestine.  By  a  modern  scholar  who  believes 
that  'nothing  that  mars  the  character  of  Jesus 
or  lessens  his  power  has  yet  come  forth.'  " 
N.Y.   state  lib. 

Glover,  T.  R.  Jesus  of  history.  '17  Assn. 
press  $1  232 

"Dr.  Glover's  gifts  of  vivid  description  and 
graphic  exposition  have  enabled  him  to  provide 
a  study  of  the  central  figure  of  the  synoptic 
gospels  which  must  evoke  and  retain  the  interest 
of  even  the  least  sympathetic  readers."  Times 
[London]   lit.  sup. 

Revised  from  lectures  delivered  in  India,  19 15- 
1016 

Martin,  A.  W.  Life  of  Jesus  in  the  light 
of  the  higher  criticism.  '13  Appleton 
$1.50  232 

"Lectures  by  the  associate  leader  of  the 
Ethical  culture  society,  reverently  interpreting 
the  life  of  Jesus  as  that  of  an  historical  person- 
age of  transcendent,  moral  character  and  spir- 
itual insight  and  the  greatest  ethical  teacher  the 
world  has  ever  known."      Cleveland. 

Miller,  L.  H.  Our  knowledge  of  Christ. 
'14  Holt  $1.25  232 

"From  the  viewpoint  of  modern  scholarship 
the  author  discusses  the  sources  of  our. informa- 
tion concerning  Jesus,  the  life  of  Jesus,  the 
teaching  of  Jesus,  and  the  divinity  of  Christ. 
For  those  'brought  up  in  orthodoxy,  for  whom 
the  old  has  become  increasingly  unsatisfying,' 
this  book  fearless  yet  reverent,  furnishes  a 
modern  Christian  faith.  Reprinted  from  Biblical 
World."     A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

Renan,  Ernest.     Life  of  Jesus.     '99  Little 

$2  232 

"Considers   Jesus    only    an   extraordinary   man, 

the    highest    moral    reformer   the   world    has    ever 

known."       Pittsburgh 

Sanday,  William.  Outlines  of  the  life  of 
Christ.  2d  ed  '08  Scribner  $3.25  232 

"Reprint  of  the  author's  great  article  'Jesus 
Christ'  in  Hasting's  'Dictionary  of  the  Bible', 
which  is  perhaps  the  finest  piece  of  work  in  the 
whole  dictionary.  It  is  an  admirable  specimen 
of  the  spirit  and  temper  of  the  same  scholarship 
and  cautious   criticism  at  its  best  among  English 


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67 


Jesus  Christ — Continued 

theologians."      (Condensed    from    Outlook    [Eng- 
lish])   Pittsburgh 

Seeley,  J.  R.  Ecce  homo:  a  survey  of  the 
life  and  work  of  Jesus  Christ.  '03  Little 
$1.25  232 

Slattery,  C.  L.  Master  of  the  world.  '14 
Longmans  $1.60  232 

"The  book  attempts  to  interpret  Jesus  Christ 
in  the  light  of  modern  scholarship,  but  at  the 
same  time  to  fuse  with  the  primary  sources  of 
information  concerning  him,  all  the  subsequent 
doctrines  which  have  grown  up  around  his  per- 
son." Nation 
Stalker,  James.  Life  of  Jesus  Christ,  rev 
ed  '97  Revell  60c  232 

Short  biography  giving  main  events  in  se- 
quence 

709.92     Biography  of  artists 

Collective 

Bryan,  Michael 

Bryan's  dictionary  of  painters  and  en- 
gravers. Sv  new  ed  rev  and  enl  '03- 
'05   Macmillan  $30?  709.92 

Vasari,  Giorgio 

Lives  of  seventy  of  the  most  eminent 
painters,  sculptors  and  architects;  ed. 
and  annotated  in  the  light  of  recent 
discoveries  by  E.  H.  and  E.  W.  Blash- 
field  and  A.  A.  Hopkins.  4v  '01  Scrib- 
ner  $8  709.92 

Translated   by   Mrs  Jonathan   Foster 

Bibliography,    4:333-87 

"The  groundwork  of  our  knowledge  of  thp 
great  Italian  artists  of  the  15th  and  16th  cen- 
turies. Full  of  anecdote,  and  picturesque  nar- 
rative, and  brilliant  pictures  of  life  in  Italv 
during    the    epoch."      Sturgis    &    Krehbiel 

Macmillan  also  publishes  a  six  volume  edi- 
tion in  the  Bohn's  library  series  at  $1.75  oer 
volume;  and  a  ten  volume  edition,  profusely 
illustrated  and  sold  only  in  sets,  at  $70 

Waters,  Mrs  Clara   (Erskine) 

Painters,   sculptors,   architects,   engravers 

and  their  works.    13th  ed  '10  Houghton 

$3.50  709.92 

"Living  artists  are  not  included.     Sketches  are 

very   brief."      Mudge 

Waters,  Mrs  Clara  (Erskine),  and  Hutton. 
Laurence 

Artists  of  the  19th  century  and  their 
works.    '93  Houghton  $3.50  709.92 

"More  than  2,000  brief  biographic  accounts 
of  artists  followed  by  critical  quotations  from 
authorities.  Aims  'to  present  the  later  artists 
of  prominence,  rather  than  to  include  all  of 
those   of   the   century.'  "      Mudge 

730.92     Biography  of  sculptors 

Collective 

Shedd,  Mrs  Julia  Ann  (Clark) 

Famous  sculptors  and  sculpture,  rev  ed 
'96   Houghton   $2.50  730.92 

Companion  volume  to  "Painters  and  paint- 
ings" 

Individual 
Bitter,  Karl 

Schevill,  Ferdinand.    Karl  Bitter;  a  biog- 


raphy,   il  '17  Univ.  of  Chicago  press  $2 

730.92 

"A  biography  and  appreciation  of  this  famous 
sculptor's  work  in  which  the  author  'makes  us 
see  the  honesty,  the  energy,  the  tact,  the  great 
organizing  ability  and  the  public  spirit  which 
accomplished  so  much — above  all,  he  makes  us 
see  the  intense  Americanism  of  one  who  was  an 
American  by  choice  rather  than  by  the  accident 
of  birth.'  (Nation  105:44)  Has  a  chronological 
list  and  thirty-eight  pictures  of  some  of  his 
more  famous  work."     A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

Cellini,  Benvenuto 

Life;  tr.  by  J.  A.  Symonds.  6th  ed  '19 
Scribner  $3.50  730.92 

"He  was  the  first  goldsmith  of  his  time,  an 
adequate  sculptor,  a  restless  traveler,  an  in- 
defatigable workman,  a  Bohemian  of  the  purest 
water,  a  turbulent  bravo,  a  courtier  and  com- 
panion of  princes;  finally,  a  Florentine  who 
used  his  native  idiom  with  incomparable  vivac- 
ity of  style.  .  .  .  Those  who  have  made 
themselves  thoroly  familiar  with  Cellini's 
'Memoirs'  possess  the  substance  of  that  many- 
sided  epoch  [the  1 6th  century]  in  the  form  of 
an  epitome.  It  is  the  first  book  which  a  student 
of  the  Italian  renaissance  should  handle  in  or- 
der to  obtain  the  right  direction  for  his  more 
minute  researches.  .  .  .  From  the  pages  of 
this  book  the  Genius  of  the  renaissance,  incar- 
nate in  a  single  personality,  leans  forth  and 
speaks   to   us."      (J.   A.    Symonds)    Pittsburgh 

Imported  by  Scribner.  Temporarily  out  of 
print 

Memoirs;  tr.  by  A.  Macdonell.  (Every- 
man's lib.)  '13  Dutton  70c;  lib.  bind- 
ing 90c  730.92 

Rodin,  Auguste 

Cladel,  Judith,  comp.  Rodin,  the  man 
and  his  art;  tr.  by  S.  K.  Star,  il  '17 
Century  $5  730.92 

"An  outline  of  his  career  is  followed  by  ex- 
cerpts from  his  notebooks  introduced  by  Judith 
Cladel,  who  writes  a  critical  appreciation  and 
comment.  .  .  .  The  text  is  illustrated  by 
about  forty  beautiful  photographs  of  Rodin'? 
work.  ...  It  will  not  replace  Rodin's  'Art' 
but  will  supplement  it,  as  it  contains  further 
leaves  from  the  notebook,  and  the  photographs 
are  better  than  those  in  the  cheaper  edition." 
A.   L.  A.  bkl. 

Mauclair,  Camille.  Auguste  Rodin,  the 
man,  his  ideas,  his  works;  tr.  by  Clem- 
entina Black,    il    '05  Dutton  $5     730.92 

"Enthusiastic  account,  which  has  received  the 
approval  of  the  sculptor,  whose  own  explanation 
of  his  aims  and  theories  is  a  valuable  feature. 
Lawton's  'Life  and  work  of  Auguste  Rodin' 
(Scribner,  1907)  is  an  able,  painstaking  record 
based  on  talks  with  Rodin  and  on  documents  in 
Rodin's  possession.  A  briefer  life  by  the  same 
author  (Kennerley,  1908)  is  not  an  abridgment 
of  the  former  work  tho  written  from  the  same 
viewpoint  and  will  answer  the  smaller  library's 
need."     A.  L.  A.  sup. 

Saint-Gaudens,   Augustus 

Reminiscences;  ed.  and  amplified  by  Ho- 
mer Saint-Gaudens.  2v  il  '13  Century 
$7  730.92 

Chronology  of  the  works  of  Augustus  Saint- 
Gaudens,   2:361-5 

"Autobiography  written  during  the  last  year 
of  his  life,  arranged  and  edited  by  his  son,  with 
many  letters  written  between  1870  and  1907. 
Gives  a  clear  picture  of  his  life  as  sculptor  and 
teacher,  and  shows  his  capacity  for  long,  de- 
lightful   friendships."      Pittsburgh 

Cortissoz,  Royal.  Augustus  Saint- 
Gaudens.     '07  Houghton  $8.50        730.92 

_  "A  brief  but  important  monograph  presenting 
discriminating  and  authoritative  criticism  and 
slight  but  significant  and  interesting  biographical 


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STANDARD    CATALOG 


Saint-Gaudens,  Augustus — Continued 

notes.  Beautifully  printed,  tastefully  bound,  il- 
lustrated with  excellent  photogravures  of  the 
most  important  works  of  the  artist.  Expensive 
out  of  all  proportion  to  the  contents  or  beauty. 
However,  should  be  owned  by  all  libraries  that 
can_  afford  it,  because  of  the  importance  of  the 
subject — our  first  really  great  sculptor — and  of 
its  admirable  treatment."     A.   L.  A.  bkl. 

Hind,  C.  L.  Augustus  Saint-Gaudens.  il 
'08   Lane   $3.50  730.92 

"Contains  an  appreciative,  uncritical  essay, 
chronologies  of  the  sculptor's  life  and  works, 
and  forty-seven  excellent  photographic  repro- 
ductions, many  of  unfamiliar  subjects." 
A.  L.  A.  sup. 

759     Biography  of  painters 

Many  so-called  lives  of  artists  are  art  criticism 
rather  than  biography  and  will  be  found  in  the 
Fine  arts  section  of  the  Standard  Catalog. 

Collective 

Chubb,   Edwin   Watts 

Sketches  of  great  painters,  il  '15  Stewart 
&  Kidd  $2  759 

Contents:  Raphael:  Millet;  Leonardo  da 
Vinci;  Rembrandt;  Whistlei ;  Turner;  Titian; 
Rubens;  Corot;  Michelangelo;  Reynolds;  Murillo; 
Velasquez;   Rosa  Bonheur;  Van  Dyck 

"Readable  and  appreciative  sketches  of  fifteen 
master  painters  from  Raphael  to  Whistler, 
abounding  in  anecdotes,  quotations  and  pleasant 
gossip.  Written  especially  for  the  uninitiated 
general  reader."     A.   L.  A.  bkl. 

La  Farge,  John 

Great  masters.   '03  Doubleday  $2.50      759 

Contents:  Michelangelo;  Raphael;  Rem- 
brandt;  Rubens;    Velasquez;    Diirer,   Hokusai 

759.1      American  painters 

Collective 

Caffin,  Charles  Henry 

American  masters  of  painting;  being 
brief  appreciations  of  some  American 
painters,  illus.  with  examples  of  their 
work.    '02  Doubleday  $1.25  759.1 

Reprinted  from    the   New  York   Sun 
Contents:    Inness;    La    Farge;    Whistler;    Sar- 
gent;   Winslow   Homer;    Abbey;    George    Fuller; 
Homer  Martin;   Brush;   Wyant;   Tryon;    Horatio 
Walker;    Gilbert    Stuart 

McSpadden,  Joseph  Walker 

Famous  painters  of  America.  2d  ed  il  '16 
Dodd  $2.50  759.1 

Contents:  Benjamin  West;  John  Singleton 
Copley;  Gilbert  Stuart;  George  Inness;  Elihu 
Vedder;  Winslow  Homer;  John  La  Farge; 
James  Abbott  McNeill  Whistler;  John  Singer 
Sargent;  Edwin  Austin  Abbey;  William  Merritt 
Chase;  John  W.  Alexander;  J.  Alden  Weir; 
Childe    Hassam 

"Series  of  sketches  of  the  lives  and  personal- 
ities of  American  painters,  but  offering  nothing 
of  value  in  the  way  of  history  or  criticism  of 
art.  The  book  is  not  well  written,  is  florid  in 
style,  but  contains  material  on  some  of  the  later 
artists  of  which  little  is  to  be  found  elsewhere 
except  in  magazine  files,  or  expensive  works." 
A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

Individual 

Chase,  William   Merritt 

Roof,    K.    M.     Life    and   art    of   William 


Merritt  Chase,  il  '17  Scribner  $4  759.1 
"A  former  pupil  writes  this  authorized  biogra- 
phy of  the  American  artist  who  died  in  1916. 
A  vivid,  sympathetic  account  of  Chase_  as  man, 
artist  and  teacher,  throwing  interesting  side- 
lights upon  contemporary  American  and  Euro- 
pean   artists."       Cleveland 

Homer,  Winslow 

Downes,  W.  H.  Life  and  works  of  Wins- 
low Homer,  il  '11  Houghton  $7  759.1 
"Very  full  and  appreciative  biography  and 
descriptions  of  the  larger  number  of  his  paint- 
ings, often  with  the  circumstances  attending 
their  execution.  Reproductions  in  sepia  of  over 
100   paintings   and  sketches."      A.   L.   A.    sup. 

Inness,  George 

Inness,  George,  jr.  Life,  art  and  letters 
of   George   Inness.   il  '17   Century  $4 

759.1 

"Informal  and  refreshing  biography  of  the 
famous  American  landscape  artist,  by  his  son, 
also  a  well  known  artist.  The  critical  side  is 
not  neglected,  but  the  feature  of  the  book  which 
will  ensure  for  it  a  wide  circle  of  readers  is 
the  wealth  of  anecdote  revealing  an  eccentric 
but  lovable  personality.  There  are  thirty-seven 
reproductions   of  paintings."      Cleveland 

La  Farge,  John 

Cortissoz,    Royal.      John    La  Farge;      a 

memoir  and  a  study,    il  '11  Houghton 

$4.50  759.1 

Intimate  and  sympathetic  memoir,  by  a  friend 
of  many  years'  standing,  with  many  of  La 
Farge's  opinions  on  art  and  men  quoted  in  his 
own  words.  The  meagerness  of  definite  detail 
makes  it  of  slight  value  to  the  student." 
A.   L.  A.   sup. 

Fifteen  photogravures,  including  three  por- 
traits  and   reproductions   of  paintings 

Low,  Will  Hicok 

A  chronicle  of  friendships,  1873-1900.  il 
'08  Scribner  $3  759.1 

"Records  the  fortunate  friendships  of  the 
artist's  student  days  in  Paris  and  Barbizon  and 
in  later  years  in  the  United  States  and  Eng- 
land. Besides  the  two  who  occupy  the  largest 
place — Robert  Louis  Stevenson  and  R.  A.  M. 
Stevenson — there  are  interesting  paragraphs  or 
chapters  relating  to  many  others,  among  them 
Saint-Gaudens,  Henley  and  Jean  Francois  Mil- 
let."     A.    L.   A.    sup. 

Whistler,   James   Abbott    McNeill 

Pennell,  Mrs  E.  R.,  and  Pennell,  Joseph. 
Life  of  James  McNeill  Whistler.  5th  ed 
rev  il    '11   Lippincott  $5  759.1 

"Cheap,  one  volume  edition  of  the  authorized 
biography  (2V,  1908,  Lippincott),  based  on  ma- 
terial furnished  by  Whistler  and  his  family  and 
written  with  a  sympathy  and  appreciation 
founded  on  intimate  friendship.  The  excel- 
lent photogravure  illustrations  are  less  well  pro- 
duced than  in  the  original  edition,  tho  several 
never  before  published  have  been  added  and 
many   changes  made."      A.   L.   A.  sup. 

"Mr  and  Mrs  Pennell  are  as  completely  in 
sympathy  with  the  man  as  with  the  artist.  'He 
was,'  they  frankly  concede,  'the  most  wonderful 
man  we  have  ever  known,  and  the  most  de- 
lightful friend  we  have  ever  made.'  Their 
volumes  are  alive  with  his  personality. 

'And  what  a  magnificent  subject  for  a  biogra- 
phy Mr  Whistler  makes, — none  better  since 
Johnson  died.  Always  filling  the  center  of  the 
stage  by  right  of  a  brilliant  and  fantastic  per- 
sonality; always  at  war  with  somebody  or  some- 
thing, yet  full  of  the  spirit  of  camaraderie; 
snatching  ardently  at  friendship,  and  strewing 
his  path  with  enemies;  forcing  recognition  from 
a  reluctant  public,  while  wounding  its  tenderest 
sensibilities;  making  merry  over  a  "succes  d'ex- 
dcration,'  yet  with  that  over-sensitiveness  to 
annoyance  which  is  the  painful  heritage  of  the 
wit.' "      (Life,    1909)    Pittsburgh 


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69 


759.2      English   painters 

Collective 

Rowbotham,   Francis  Jameson 

Story-lives  of  our  great  artists,  il  '12 
Stokes  $1.50  759.2 

Contents:  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds;  Thomas 
Gainsborough;  George  Romney;  George  Mor- 
land;  Joseph  Mallord;  William  Turner;  John 
Constable;  Sir  Edwin  Henry  Landseer;  George 
Frederick  Watts 

"The  author's  aim  is  to  arouse  interest  in 
the  masterpieces  of  English  art  by  giving  some 
account  of  the  circumstances  under  which  they 
were   produced."      Cleveland 

Individual 

Burne- Jones,  Sir  Edward  Coley 

Bell,  Malcolm.  Sir  Edward  Burne-Jones; 
a  record  and  review.  4th  ed  '01  Mac- 
millan  $1.10  759.2 

Chronologic  catalog  of  finished  pictures,  pi  29- 
II ;  List  of  unfinished  pictures  sold  at  Christie's, 
July  16,  18,  1898,  P132-33;  List  of  cartoons 
for   stained   glass    windows,    P134-39 

Burne-Jones,  G.  M.  Memorials  of  Ed- 
ward Burne-Jones,  1833-1898.  il  Mac- 
millan $4  759.2 

First  published  in  1904,  in  two  volumes 
"Its  primary  interest  to  us,  and  to  posterity, 
is  the  disclosure  it  gives  of  the  character  and 
art  of  one  so  singularly  gifted  and  original  as 
Burne-Jones  was;  but  it  is  also  extremely  val- 
uable for  the  light  it  casts  on  the  men  by  whom 
he  was  surrounded,  whom  he  attracted  and  in- 
fluenced; on  their  genius,  their  insight,  and  their 
friendships.  It  was  indeed  a  remarkable  com- 
pany of  illustrious  and  unenvious  men,  each  of 
whom  rejoiced  in  the  achievements  of  all  the 
rest.  It  may  be  doubted  if  there  ever  was  such 
a  group  in  the  previous  annals  of  art.  .  .  . 
Edward  Burne-Jones,  William  Morris,  Dante 
Gabriel  Rossetti,  Ford  Madox  Brown,  Holraan 
Hunt,  John  Ruskin,  George  Frederick  Watts, 
William  Bell  Scott,  with  many  another  kindred 
spirit — a  right  noble  brotherhood  of  workers 
for  the  beautiful — while  outside  the  special 
artist-group  were  some  distinguished  men  with 
whom  the  reader  of  these  'Memorials'  becomes 
familiar,  Messrs  Cormal  Price,  Faulkner,  Hal- 
ford,  MacLaren  and  others.'  (Fortnightly  rev., 
1906)    Admirably   illustrated."      Pittsburgh 

Gainsborough,  Thomas 

Armstrong,  Sir  Walter.  Gainsborough 
and  his  place  in  English  art.  il  '04 
Scribner  $3.75  759.2 

"Well  ordered  analysis  of  work  and  methods. 
Interesting  chapter  on  precursors  of  Gainsbor- 
ough."    A.  L.  A.  sup. 

Hogarth,  William 

Garnett,  Edward.  Hogarth.  (Popular 
lib.   of  art)    '11    Dutton  $1  759.2 

Brief,  critical  study  of  Hogarth's  life  and 
paintings 

Hueffer,  Ford  Madox 

Memories  and  impressions,  il  '11  Harper 
$2  759.2 

"Interesting  tho  sketchy  impressions  and 
anecdotes  of  the  leaders  of  the  Preraphaelite 
brotherhood,  by  the  grandson  of  Ford  Madox 
Brown,  to  which  are  added  criticisms  of  paint- 
ers, poets  and  writers  of  the  '70s,  '80s  and 
'90s."     A.  L.  A.  sup. 

Reynolds,  Sir  Joshua 
Armstrong,  Sir  Walter.    Sir  Joshua  Rey- 


nolds, first  president  of  the  Royal  acad- 
emy, il  '05  Scribner  $3.75  759.2 
"Excellent  critical  life,  presenting  Reynolds' 
character  justly  and  estimating  his  work 
calmly."      A.    L.   A.   sup. 

Bensusan,  S.  L.  Reynolds,  il  '07  Stokes 
75c  759.2 

Brief  account  of  the  life  and  work  of  Sir 
Joshua  Reynolds,  with  eight  color  reproductions 
of  his  paintings 

Rossetti,  Dante  Gabriel 

Benson,  A.  C.  Dante  Gabriel  Rossetti. 
(English  men  of  letters)  '04  Macmillan 
75c  759.2 

"Agreeably  written,  appreciative  and  con- 
denses information  elsewhere  accessible."  (Ath- 
enaeum)  A.   L.  A.  sup. 

Marillier,  H.  C.  Dante  Gabriel  Rossetti; 
an  illustrated  memorial  of  his  art  and 
life.  3d  ed  '04  Macmillan  $3  759.2 

Only  imported   to  order 

"An  account  of  Rossetti's  art,  concerned  no 
more  than  is  necessary  with  biographical  de- 
tails. 'In  critical  soundness,  thoroness  and 
manner  of  presentation  the  work  leaves  little 
to   be   desired.' "      (Dial)    A.   L.   A.   sup. 

Rossetti,     Dante    Gabriel,     and     Rossetti, 
Christina 
Cary,   E.    L.     The   Rossettis:   Dante   Ga- 
briel and  Christina.    1900  Putnam  $3.50 

759.2 

More  important  writings  of  D.  G.  Rossetti, 
P277-81;  Christina  Rossetti's  poems,  P282-87; 
Chronologic  list  of  paintings  and  drawings  by 
D.   G.   Rossetti,   P288-301 

759.3  German  painters 

Diirer,  Albrecht 

Moore,  T.  S.  Albert  Durer.  (Lib.  of  art) 
il  '05   Scribner  $2.50  759.3 

"Less  an  ordinary  biography  than  an  original 
study  by  an  artist  of  the  first  principles  of  art." 
(Pittsburgh)    A.   L.   A.   sup. 

759.4  French  painters 

Collective 

Hoeber,  Arthur 

Barbizon  painters,  il  '15  Stokes  $2     759.4 

Contents:  Millet;  Corot;  Diaz  de  la  Pena; 
Duprd;  Troyon;   Rousseau;   Daubigny;   Jacque 

Biographical  and  critical  essays  on  the  "men 
of  1830"  by  an  American  landscape  painter 

"Well  illustrated  by  some  of  the  less  familiar 
examples  of  their  work."     Pratt  quarterly 

Mauclair,  Camille 

French  impressionists  (1860-1900);  tr.  by 
P.  G.  Konody.  (Popular  lib.  of  art)  '03 
Dutton  $1  759.4 

"Discusses  theory  of  impressionism,  with 
critical  estimates  of  work  of  Manet,  Degas, 
Claude  Monet,  Renoir  and  briefer  mention  of 
many  other  impressionists  and  neo-impression- 
ists.  Fifty  half  tones."  (N.Y.  state  lib.) 
A.  L.  A. 

Individual 

Bastien-Lepage,  Jules 

Crastre,  Francois.  Bastien  Lepage;  tr.  by 
F.  T.  Cooper.  (Masterpieces  in  colour) 
'14  Stokes   75c  759.4 

There  are  fifty-six  volumes  of  this  little  series. 


70 


STANDARD    CATALOG 


Bastien-Lepage,  Jules — Continued 

Each  volume  has  eight  reproductions  in  color 
of  the  work  of  the  artist  treated  in  the  brief 
text. 

Bonheur,  Rosa 

Stanton,  Theodore,  ed.    Reminiscences  of 
Rosa  Bonheur.  il  '10  Appleton  $3.50 

759.4 

"Reminiscences  and  letters  collected  from  the 
artist's  friends,  members  of  her  family  and  other 
sources,  form  an  admirable  biography  and  por- 
tray  a  many-sided  character."     A.  L.  A.  sup. 

Millet,  Jeari  Frangois 

Sensier,  Alfred.    Jean-Frangois  Millet.  '96 
Houghton  $3.50  759.4 

"A  peasant  and  the  painter  of  peasants,  whose 
typical  figure  was  the  laborer  in  the  fields,  Mil- 
let is  one  of  the  most  interesting  of  artists. 
Sensier  was  an  intimate  friend,  and  his  biogra- 
phy  is   the   authoritative    one."      Pittsburgh 


759.5      Italian  painters 


Collective 

Jameson,  Mrs  Anna  Brownell  (Murphy) 

Memoirs  of  the  early  Italian  painters; 
rev.  by  E.  M.  Hurll.  '99  Houghton  $3.50 

759.5 

From   Cimabue   to   Paul  Veronese 

Individual 

Botticelli,   Alessandro    Filipepi 

Ady,  Mrs  J.  C.  Life  and  art  of  Sandro 
Botticelli,  il  '04  Dutton  $6  759.5 

"Clear  narrative,  restating  the  results  of 
modern  research  and  giving  a  trustworthy  ac- 
count of  Botticelli's  career.  What  he  owed  to 
Savonarola  and  Dante  is  set  forth  in  a  straight- 
forward fashion,  and  his  works  are  surveyed  in 
chronologic  order,  one  by  one."     A.   L.  A.  sup. 

— Sandro  Botticelli.  (Popular  lib.  of 
art)   '03   Dutton   $1  759.5 

Correggio 

Brinton,  Selwyn.  Correggio.  (Great  mas- 
ters)   1900    Macmillan    $1.75  759.5 

Only  imported  to  order 

Bibliography,  pref.  po-n;  Catalog  of  Cor- 
reggio's    works,    P123-44 

Donatello 

Cruttwell,  Maud.  Donatello.  (Classics  of 
art   ser.)     il   '11    Scribner  $5  759.5 

"Workmanlike  study  of  Donatello  as  the  first 
realistic  portraitist  in  Italian  art.  The  bio- 
graphical sketch  is  accurate  and  the  interpreta- 
tion of  Donatello's  work  in  accord  with  the 
best  modern   criticism."     A.  L.  A.  sup. 

Giotto 

Perkins,  F.  M.  Giotto.  (Great  masters) 
'02   Macmillan  $1.75  759.5 

Bibliography,  pref.  pn;  Catalog  of  works, 
Pi45 

Only   imported  to  order 

Michelangelo    Buonarroti 

Rolland,  Romain.  Michelangelo;  tr.  by 
Frederick   Street,    il   '15    Duffield   $2.50 

759.5 

"This  life  of  Michelangelo  is  published  in 
France  in  the  series  called  'Les  maitres  de 
l'art,'  and  is  here  translated  into  English  for 
the   first    time.      It    is    entirely   distinct    from     a 


study  of  Michelangelo  by  Romain  Rolland  which 
appeared   some   time   ago."      Prefatory   note 

"A  study  of  the  artist's  life,  character  and 
work  as  a  whole,  scholarly  yet  imaginative,  and 
enthusiastic."     A.    L.   A.   bkl. 

Contains   over   twenty   full-page  illustrations 

Symonds,  J.  A.  Life  of  Michelangelo 
Buonarroti.    2d   ed  2v   '93    Scribner    $5 

759.5 
Books   referred   to,   vi,   pref.    P23-25 
"Based  on  studies   in  archives  of  the  Buonar- 
roti  family    at   Florence.      Portrait   and  fifty   re- 
productions  of  the  works  of  the  master."      Sub- 
title 

Raphael 

Ady,  Mrs  J.  C.  Raphael.  (Popular  lib.  of 
art)    '15    Dutton    $1  759.5 

Similar  in  scope  and  treatment  to  the  author's 
work  on  Botticelli 

Strachey,  Henry.     Raphael.    (Great  mas- 
ters)   1900    Macmillan    $1.75  759.5 
Catalog   of   Raphael's    works    arranged   accord- 
ing   to    galleries,    pi  17-38;    Chronologic    list     of 
works,   pi 39-43 

Only  imported  to  order 

Sarto,  Andrea  del 

Guinness,  H.  Andrea  del  Sarto.  (Great 
masters)    '99   Macmillan  $1.75         759.5 

Bibliography,  pref.  pi 5-6;  Catalog  of  del 
Sarto's  works  and  of  certain  attributed  works, 
arranged   according  to   galleries,   P65-100 

Only   imported  to   order 

Titian 

Bensusan,  S.  L.  Titian.  (Masterpieces 
in  colour)  '08  Stokes  75c  759.5 

Gronau,  Georg.  Titian  and  his  school. 
(Lib.  of  art)  il  '04  Scribner  $2.50  759.5 
"Not  so  specialized  as  the  standard  biography 
by  Crowe  and  Cavalcaselle.  It  is  tersely  and 
vividly  written,  precisely  the  book  for  the  gen- 
eral  reader."      A.    L.   A.   sup. 

Vinci,  Leonardo  da 

Siren,  Osvald.  Leonardo  da  Vinci,  the 
artist  and  man.  il  '16  Yale  univ.  press 
$6  759.5 

"Altho  again  and  again  the  story  of  Leon- 
ardo's life  has  been  written,  never  has  so  full 
and  complete  a  history  of  it,  from  the  stand- 
point of  both  artist  and  man,  been  published. 
It  is  a  beautiful  book,  well  printed,  finely  il- 
lustrated, and  written  with  that  clearness  of 
style  which  characterizes  the  best  works  in  liter- 
ature."   (Amer.    mag.   of  art)      Cleveland 


759.6      Spanish  painters 


Individual 

Goya  y  Lucientes,  Francisco 

Stokes,    Hugh.      Francisco    Goya,    il     '14 
Putnam  $3.75  759.6 

"Portrays  the  life  of  the  artist  in  the  light 
of  the  historical  circumstances  which  surrounded 
him,  and  interprets  his  art  as  a  reflection  of 
a  personality.  Spanish  art  of  the  eighteenth 
century  is  treated  rather  fully  as  a  background 
for  Goya's  work.  The  first  attempt  in  English  at 
a  complete  biography,  but  the  small  libraries 
need  not  buy  because  of  the  adequate  short 
monograph  by  Calvert  [now  out  of  print].  Con- 
tains over  forty  good  reproductions  of  the 
artist's  work,  a  catalog  of  his  paintings,  etch- 
ings, and  lithographs,  and  a  bibliography  (6p)."' 
A.  L.  A.  bkl. 


BIOGRAPHY— Musicians 


71 


Murillo 

Calvert,  A.  F.  Murillo;  a  biography  and 
appreciation.  (Spanish  ser.)  il  '07  Lane 
$1.50  759.6 

Biographical  sketch,  list  of  works  with  a  brief 
description  and  mention  of  present  whereabouts 
of  the  originals 

Velasquez 

Bensusan,  S.  L.  Velasquez.  (Master- 
pieces in  colour)  '07  Stokes  75c  759.6 
"Each  volume  in  this  series  contains  a  brief 
review  of  the  life  and  work  of  the  artist,  with 
eight  color  reproductions  of  his  paintings." 
Cleveland 

Stevenson,  R.  A.  M.  Velasquez.  (Great 
masters)    '99  Macmillan  $1.75  759.6 

Bibliography,  pref.  pi  3-1 5;  Catalog  of  the 
works  of  Velasquez  and  of  certain  works  at- 
tributed to  the  artist,  arranged  according  to  the 
galleries  in  which  they  are  contained,  pi 27-58 

Discusses  principles  of  the  art  of  Velasquez 
and   his   influence   on   modern   painting 

Only   imported  to  order 

759.9      Other  painters 

Hals,  Frans 

Davies,  G.  S.     Frans  Hals.    (Great  mas- 
ters)    '04   Macmillan   $1.75  759.9 
Approximate  chronologies  of  life  and  most  im- 
portant  works.      List    of   prices    at   sales    in    the 
last  century  and  a  half 
Only  imported  to  order 

Markino,  Yoshio 
A    Japanese     artist    in     London,     il    '10 
Jacobs  $2  759.9 

"Amusing  and  pathetic  account  of  the  au- 
thor's thirteen-year  struggle  with  poverty  in 
London,  and  his  impressions  of  city  and  people. 
His  picturesque  Japanese-English  enhances  the 
interest.  Illustrated  by  himself  in  color  and 
black  and  white."  (N.Y.  state  lib.)  A.  L.  A. 
sup. 

Rembrandt 

Brown,  G.  B.  Rembrandt;  a  study  of  his 
life  and  work.  '07  Scribner  $2.50  759.9 
"May  be  commended  as  the  best  book  on 
Rembrandt's  life  and  art  for  the  general  reader 
that  has  been  produced  in  England."  (Ath- 
enaeum) Cleveland 

Illustrated  with  more  than  forty  plates  repre- 
senting  every   phase   of   the   painter's   work 

Van  Dyck,  Sir  Anthony 

Cust,  L.  H.  Van  Dyck.  (Great  masters) 
il  '06  Macmillan  $1.75  759.9 

Only  imported  to   order 

"Admirable  condensation  of  the  author's 
larger  standard  work,  'Anthony  Van  Dyck,' 
(1900)  with  some  new  facts  which  have  recently 
come  to  light.  List  of  principal  paintings  and 
where  they  are  to  be  found."      A.  L.  A.  sup. 

780.92     Musicians  and  composers 

Some  so-called  lives  of  musicians  which  are 
musical  criticism  rather  than  biography  will  be 
found  in  the  Fine  arts  section  of  the  Standard 
Catalog. 

Collective 

Baker,  Theodore 

Biographical  dictionary  of  musicians,  il 
new  ed  '18  Schirmer  $5  780.92 

"Especially  strong  for  English  and  American 
names  and  for  contemporaries."      Mudge 


Dole,  Nathan  Haskell 

Famous  composers.    2v  '02  Crowell  $2 

780.92 
Contents:  vi,  Palestrina;  Purcell;  Bach; 
Handel;  Gluck,  Haydn;  Mozart;  Beethoven; 
Bossini;  Weber.  v2,  Schubert;  Spohr;  Meyer- 
beer; Mendelssohn;  Schumann;  Chopin;  Glinka; 
Berlioz;   Liszt;   Wagner 

Hadow,  William  Henry 

Studies  in  modern  music.  4th  ed  2v  '98- 
'02  Macmillan  $2.25   ea  780.92 

Contents:  vi,  Berlioz;  Schumann;  Wagner. 
V2,   Chopin,    Dvorak;    Brahms. 

"Chiefly,   critical   biography."      A.    L.   A. 

Hughes,  Rupert 

Music  lovers'  encyclopedia,  rev  (popu- 
lar ed)  '13  Doubleday  $3  780.3 
Revised  edition  of  his  "Musical  guide" 
"Containing  a  pronouncing  and  defining  dic- 
tionary of  terms,  instruments,  etc.,  including  a 
key  to  pronunciation  of  sixteen  languages,  many 
charts  and  an  explanation  of  the  construction 
of  music  for  the  uninitiated,  a  pronouncing  bi- 
ographical dictionary,  the  stories  of  the  operas 
and  many  numerous  biographical  and  critical 
essays  by   distinguished   authorities."      Subtitle 

"It  remains,  altho  even  now  it  has  only  960 
pages,  in  some  respects  the  most  comprehensive 
and  useful  of  all  musical  works  of  reference, 
including  features  to  be  found  neither  in  Rie- 
mann's  1,600  pages,  nor  in  the  five  volumes  of 
Grove.  The  most  important  of  these  is  the  de- 
tailed plots  of  operas — sixty  of  them.  The 
most  distinctive  merit  of  this  volume  lies  in  the 
elimination  of  useless  knowledge."  Nation 
96:372 

International  who's  who  in  music  and  mu- 
sical gazetteer;  a  contemporary  bio- 
graphical dictionary  and  a  record  of 
the  world's  musical  activity.  '18  Cur- 
rent literature  pub.  co.  $6  780.92 
Lahee,  Henry  Charles 

Famous  pianists  of  today  and  yesterday. 
(Music  lovers'  ser.)   '01   Page  $1.75 

780.92 
Famous  singers  of  today  and  yesterday. 
(Music  lovers'  ser.)  '98  Page  $1.75 

780.92 
Chronological  table  of  famous  singers,  P325-32 

Famous  violinists  of  today  and  yester- 
day. (Music  lovers'  ser.)  '99  Page  $1.75 

780.92 

Grand  opera  singers  of  today,  il  '12  Page 
$2.50  780.92 

"Supplements  author's  'Famous  singers  of  to- 
day and  yesterday'  and  'Grand  opera  in  Amer- 
ica' by  giving  short  personal  histories  of,  and 
press  comments  on  the  singers  since  190 1  in  the 
Metropolitan,  Manhattan  and  Boston  opera 
houses  and  the  Chicago-Philadelphia  company. 
Superficial,  but  useful  for  reference.  Forty- 
eight  portraits  and  index."      N.Y.   state  lib. 

Mason,  Daniel  Gregory 

Contemporary  composers.    '18  Macmillan 

$2  780.92 

Contents:     Democracy     and      music;     Richard 

Strauss;    Sir    Edward    Elgar;    Claude    Debussy; 

Vincent  d'lndy;   Music  in  America 

From  Grieg  to  Brahms;  studies  of  some 
modern  composers  and  their  art.  '02 
Macmillan  $2  780.92 

Contents:  Appreciation  of  music;  Grieg; 
Dvorak;  Saint-Saens;  Franck;  Tschaikowsky; 
Brahms;    Meaning  of  music 

Romantic  composers,  il  '06  Macmillan  $2 

780.92 

"Completes  the  series  of  studies  which  was 
begun    with    'From    Grieg    to    Brahms'    and    con- 


72 


STANDARD    CATALOG 


Mason,  Daniel  Gregory — Continued 

tinued  in  'Beethoven  and  his  forerunners.'  In- 
cludes Franz  Schubert,  Robert  Schumann,  Felix 
Mendelssohn,  Frederic  Chopin,  Hector  Berlioz, 
Franz  Liszt."     A.   L.  A.  sup. 

Mason,  Daniel  Gregory,  and  Mason,  Mary 
Lord 

Great  modern  composers;  biographical 
sections  by  M.  L.  Mason.  (Apprecia- 
tion of  music,  v  2)     '16  Gray  $1.50 

780.92 

Contents:  Romanticism  and  realism  in  music; 
Franz  Schubert;  Robert  Schumann;  Felix  Men- 
delssohn; Berlioz  and  the  beginnings  of  realism; 
Franz  Liszt,  Frederic  Chopin;  Edvard  Grieg; 
Antonin  Dvorak;  Camille  Saint-Saens;  Cesar 
Franck;  Peter  Uyitsch;  Tschaikowsky;  Johannes 
Brahms;    Richard    Strauss;    Claude    Debussy 

"Gives  brief  biographical  sketch  of  the_  mu- 
sician, survey  of  achievements,  and  analysis  of 
one  or  more  of  his  best  works."     N.Y.  state  lib. 

Montagu-Nathan,   M. 

Contemporary  Russian  composers,  il  '17 
Stokes  $2.75  780.92 

"A  chapter  on  Russian  musical  history  with 
serious  critical  appreciations  of  Skryabin, 
Glazounof,  Stravinsky,  Rakhmaninof,  Rebikof, 
Taneyef,  Medtner,  Tcherepnin,  Grechaninof, 
and  the   younger   generation."     A.   L.  A.  bkl. 

Sharp,  Robert  Farquharson 

Makers  of  music.  4th  ed  rev  and  enl  il  '13 
Scribner  $2  780.92 

"Short  chapters  endeavoring  to  convey  an  im- 
pression of  the  personality  of  the  following 
composers,  Bach,  Handel,  Purcell  and  Arne, 
Gluck,  Haydn,  Mozart,  Beethoven,  Weber,  Schu- 
bert, Berlioz,  Mendelssohn,  Chopin,  Schumann, 
Wagner,  Verdi,  Gounod,  Brahms  and  Grieg, 
Tchaikovsky.  Useful  for  reference  work  with 
women's  clubs.  Reprint  of  the  first  edition 
(Scribner,  1899)  with  an  added  chapter  on 
Tchaikovsky."     A.    L.   A.  bkl. 

Upton,  George  Putnam 

Standard  musical  biographies,  il  '10  Mc- 
Clurg  $1.75  780.92 

"Biographies  of  104  composers  whose  works 
are  most  familiar  in  concert  rooms,  with  critical 
estimates  and  lists  of  their  principal  composi- 
tions. There  are  some  surprising  omissions 
but  the  book  is  on  the  whole  useful  and  both  un- 
biased  and   authoritative."      A.    L.   A.   sup. 

Individual 

Bach,  Johann  Sebastian 

Parry,  Sir  C.  H.  H.  Johann  Sebastian 
Bach,  il  '09  Putnam  $3  780.92 

"Clear  impression  of  the  composer's  personal- 
ity as  expressed  in  his  works,  and  a  well  pro- 
portioned account  of  his  artistic  development 
and  his  part  in  the  evolution  of  modern  music. 
Analysis  of  compositions  will  be  specially  useful 
to  students."     A.  L.   A.  sup. 

Poole,  R.  L.  Sebastian  Bach.  (Great 
musicians)  '82  Scribner  $1  780.92 

"A  vast  amount  of  information  well  brought 
out   and   well   stated."      A.    L.    A. 

Beethoven,  Ludvig  van 

Rolland,  Romain.  Beethoven;  tr.  by 
B.  C.  Hull,    il  '17  Holt  $1.50  780.92 

"A  sympathetic  study  of  Beethoven,  the  first 
part  devoted  to  his  life  and  letters,  the  second 
to  an  analysis  by  A.  E.  Hull  of  his  sonatas, 
symphonies,  and  quartets.  Contains  a  bibliogra- 
phy (iop),  a  classification  of  pianoforte  sonatas 
and  complete  list  of  Beethoven's  works  (i2p)." 
A.  L.  A.  bkl. 


Rudall,    H.    A.      Beethoven.     (Great    mu- 
sicians) new  ed  '03  Scribner  $1       780.92 
Catalog  of  Beethoven's  printed  works,  P153-65 

Berlioz,  Louis  Hector 

Life  as  written  in  his  letters  and  mem- 
oirs; tr.  from  the  French.  (Everyman's 
lib.)   '03   Dutton  70c;  lib  binding  90c 

780.92 

"The  strange  and  romantic  self-revelation  of 
this  French  composer's  troubled  and  disap- 
pointed career,  derived  from  his  memoirs  and 
letters.  It  brings  to  view  the  heights  and 
depths  of  the  spiritual  experiences  of  a  nature 
which  may  be  said  to  have  symbolized  French 
romanticism."      Pratt    alcove 

Brahms,  Johannes 

Fuller-Maitland,  J.  A.  Brahms.  (New 
lib.  of  music)  il  '11  Lane  $2.50  780.92 
"Perhaps  the  most  useful  English  biography 
for  the  student,  since  it  analyses  a  large  number 
of  Brahms'  compositions.  Erb's  'Brahms'  is 
fuller  in  biographical  detail,  but  is  too  brief  to 
be  satisfactory;  May's  life  is  the  'most  com- 
plete accessible  depository  of  Brahms  lore,' 
(Nation)  but  contains  much  that  is  of  com- 
paratively  little   interest."      A.   L.   A.   sup. 

Chopin,  Frederic  Francois 

Huneker,  James.  Chopin;  the  man  and 
his  music.    1900  Scribner  $1.60      780.92 

"Divided  into  two  parts,  the  first  giving  a 
sketch  of  Chopin's  life,  personality  and  style 
.  .  .  while  the  second  part  analyzes  in  detail 
the  .  .  .  valses,  nocturnes,  etc.  No  pianist 
.  .  .  can  rise  from  the  perusal  of  his  pages 
without  a  deeper  appreciation  of  the  new  forms 
of  beauty  which  Chopin  has  added  ...  to  the 
musical  flora  of  the  nineteenth  century.  .  .  . 
He  justly  takes  every  opportunity  to_  emphasize 
the  manliness  of  Chopin."  (Nation,  1900) 
Pittsburgh 

Debussy,  Claude 

Liebich,  Mrs  Louise.  Claude-Achille  De- 
bussy. (Living  masters  of  music)  il  '08 
Lane  $1  780.92 

"Enthusiastic  biographical  sketch  giving  a 
description  of  Debussy's  personality,  an  account 
of  his  compositions  and  his  work  as  writer  and 
critic."      A.    L.    A.   sup. 

Elgar,  Sir  Edward 

Buckley,  R.  J.  Sir  Edward  Elgar.  (Liv- 
ing masters  of  music)  il  '05  Lane  $1 

780.92 
"Sketch    of    personality    and    enthusiastic    ap- 
preciation   of    achievements    as    composer.      List 
of    works,    portraits    and    illustrations."       (N.Y. 
state  lib.)    A.   L.   A.   sup. 

Fay,  Amy 

Music-study  in  Germany;  ed.  by  Mrs  Fay 
Peirce.    '97  Macmillan  $1.50  780.92 

"Miss  Fay  lived  in  Germany  from  1870  to 
1875,  studying  music  under  celebrated  masters, 
including  Taussig,  Kullak,  Deppe  and  Liszt. 
She  wrote  during  that  time  to  her  home  in 
Boston  frankly  ingenuous  and  entertaining  let- 
ters describing  her  musical  experiences  and 
impressions,  and  affording  pleasant  glimpses  of 
German  home   and  social   life."      Pittsburgh 

Glinka,  Michael  Ivanovich 

Montague-Nathan,  M.  Glinka.  (Masters 
of  Russian  music)  '17  Duffield  $1  780.92 
List  of  Glinka's  principal  works,  p8i-2 
"After  discussing  briefly  the  position  of 
Glinka  as  an  originator  in  Russian  music,  the 
author  gives  a  short  but  interesting  biography 
and  critical  survey  of  his  most  important  com- 
positions, ending  with  a  full  list  of  his  works. 
The  series  reads  pleasantly  and  is  useful  mainly 
in  a  library  of  music,  as  showing  three  phases 
in  one  of  the  most  interesting  movements  in  the 
history    of    music.      The    other    volumes    of    the 


BIOGRAPHY— Musicians 


73 


Glinka,  Michael  Ivanovich— Continued 

series  are:   Moussorgsky  and   Rimsky-Korsakof." 

A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

The  author  has  also  written  a  "History  of 
Russian  music"  and  "Contemporary  Russian 
composers." 

Grieg,   Edvard   Hagerup 

Finck,  H.  T.     Grieg  and  his  music,  il  '09 
Lane  $2.50  780.92 

"First  English  biography.  The  facts  pre- 
sented by  means  of  letters,  conversations,  au- 
thentic anecdotes,  etc.,  afford  a  vivid  picture  of 
the  Norwegian  composer  himself  and  bring  us 
in  contact  with  his  contemporaries,  Ole  Bull, 
Bjornson,  Ibsen  and  Liszt."  (N.Y.  state  lib.) 
A.  L.  A.  sup. 

Handel,  Georg  Friedrich 

Rolland,   Romain.     Handel;   tr.  by  A.  E. 
Hull,  il  '16  Holt  $1.50  780.92 

List  of  Handel's  works,  P193-200;  Bibliogra- 
phy, P201-3 

"A  brief  sketch  of  the  life  and  technic  of 
Handel."      Pratt    quarterly 

"M  Rolland's  view  of  Handel  has  been 
largely  anticipated  by  the  excellent  English 
biography  of  Mr  R.  A.  Streatfield,  to  which  M 
Rolland  acknowledges  his  indebtedness  at  many 
points.  In  only  one  department  of  Handel's 
work,  and  that  a  comparatively  small  one — his 
music  for  instruments  without  voices — is  M 
Rolland's  study  at  all  closer  and  more  detailed." 
Times   [London]   lit.  sup. 

Streatfield,  R.  A.     Handel.    (New  lib.  of 
music)  il  '09  Lane  $2.50  780.92 

"Chief  events  of  Handel's  career  and  a  crit- 
ical analysis  of  his  works,  tracing  his  great 
personality  in  his  music.  Thoro,  competent  and 
painstaking  as  a  critical  study,  valuable  in  its 
comparisons."     A.   L.  A.  sup. 

Howard,  Kathleen 

Confessions     of    an     opera    singer.     '18 
Knopf  $2  780.92 

"Interesting  recollections  of  an  American 
singer  including  the  period  of  study  in  New 
York,  Paris  and  Berlin,  and  of  achievement  first 
in  the  provincial  cities  of  Germany,  then  at 
Covent  Garden  and  finally  as  member  of  the 
Metropolitan    opera   company."      Pratt   quarterly 

Kellogg,   Clara   Louise 

Memoirs  of  an  American  prima  donna,  il 
'13  Putnam  $2.50  780.92 

"A  volume  of  entertaining  reminiscences  pre- 
senting 'vivid  pictures  of  her  life  on  the  op- 
eratic stage  of  America  and  Europe  from  the 
year  1861,  when  she  made  her  debut  to  the 
time  of  her  retirement  from  the  stage.  .  .  . 
in   1887.'  "      (Nation)    Pratt  quarterly 

Lehmann,  Lilli 

My  path  thru  life;  tr.  by  A.  B.  Seligman. 
il  '14  Putnam  $3.50  780.92 

"The  life  story  of  the  great  Wagnerian  prima 
donna  is  rich  in  musical  memories  of  the  past 
fifty  years,_  frank  in  its  self-revelation  and  valu- 
able_  in  its  critical  opinions  of  music  and 
musicians.  The  chapters  on  the  singer's  ex- 
periences in  America  and  at  Bayreuth  in  Wag- 
ner's time  will  be  of  special  interest."  Cleve- 
land 

Liszt,  Franz 

Hervey,    Arthur.      Franz    Liszt    and    his 
music.    '11    Lane  $1.50  780.92 

"Admirable  account  of  Liszt  the  man,  com- 
poser, conductor  and  teacher,  giving  most  space 
to  Liszt's  compositions  and  the  influence  of  his 
personality.  The  most  valuable  single  English 
volume  for  the  student.  Huneker's  'Franz 
Liszt'  (Scribner  191 1,  $2)  is  a  brilliant  study  of 
certain  aspects  of  Liszt's  art  and  character." 
A.  L.  A.  sup. 


MacDowell,  Edward  Alexander 

Gilman,  Lawrence.  Edward  MacDowell. 
il  '09  Lane  $1.50  780.92 

"Very  satisfactory  account  of  MacDowell's 
life  and  an  adequate  survey  of  his  work.  Mr 
Gilman  has  had  access  to  correspondence  and 
other  writings  and  has  quoted  freely  from  the 
Columbia   lectures."      A.    L.   A.    sup. 

Mason,  William 

Memories  of  a  musical  life.    '01   Century 

$2  780.92 

"Written    from    fifty    years'    close    association 

with    musical      affairs     in      this     country      and 

abroad."      (N.Y.   state   lib.)   A.   L.    A. 

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy,  Felix 

Hensel,  Sebastian.  The  Mendelssohn 
family  (1729-1847),  from  letters  and 
journals,  new  ed  2v  in  1   Harper  $3 

780.92 
"Letters   are  largely   those   of  Felix  Mendels- 
sohn   and    his    sister    Fanny,      Frau    Hensel." 
A.  L.  A. 
Rockstro,   W.    S.     Mendelssohn.     (Great 
musicians)  3d  ed  '90  Scribner  $1  780.92 
Complete    catalog    of     Mendelssohn's     works, 
P141-7 

Mozart,  Wolfgang  Amadeus 

Hadow,  W.  H.  Mozart.  (New  lib.  of 
music)  '12  Lane  $2.50  780.92 

Nohl,  Ludwig.  Life  of  Mozart;  tr.  by 
J.  J.  Lalor.  (Biographies  of  musicians) 
9th  ed  McClurg  $1  780.92 

First    published    in     1880 

Nevin,  Ethelbert  Woodbridge 
Thompson,    Vance.      Life    of    Ethelbert 
Nevin,  from  his  letters  and  his  wife's 
memories,   il   '13   Boston   music   co.   $2 

780.92 
"A  personal  record  based  largely  on  Nevin's 
family  letters  and  diary,  with  an  account  of  his 
professional  career  and  musical  compositions. 
Gives  a  vivid  picture  of  music  students'  life 
abroad  and  'shows  the  man's  sweetness  of  char- 
acter which  he  expressed  in  his  music'  Com- 
positions of  Nevin  chronologically  ordered, 
P231-6."     Cleveland 

Paderewski,  Ignace  Jan 

Baughan,  E.  A.  Ignaz  Jan  Paderewski. 
(Living  masters  of  music)  il  '08  Lane 
$1  780.92 

"Brief  biography  presenting  a  connected  nar- 
rative of  his  life  and  dealing  with  his  personal 
traits,  his  views  on  music  and  teaching,  his 
characteristics  and  standing  as  a  pianist  and  as 
a  composer."     A.  L.  A.  sup. 

Schubert,  Franz  Peter 

Frost,  H.  F.  Schubert.  (Great  musicians) 
'85   Scribner  $1  780.92 

Chronologic  table  of  Schubert's  works,  P108-28 
"An  adequate  life  of  Schubert  is  yet  to  be 
written.  All  the  biographies  printed  thus  far 
.  .  .  are  short  and  none  equals  in  literary 
manner  and  interest  the  article  by  the  editor 
in  Grove's  Dictionary.  The  present  book  is  as 
full  as  the  ordinary  biography  and  has  an  ex- 
cellent feature  in  a  chronological  catalog  of 
Schubert's  compositions."  (H.  E.  Krehbiel) 
Pittsburgh 

Schumann,  Mme  Clara  Josephine  (Wieck) 

May,  Florence.  Girlhood  of  Clara  Schu- 
mann. (Clara  Wieck  and  her  time),  il 
'12  Longmans  $4  780.92 

"Less  a  biography  than  a  study  of  Clara 
Schumann's  place  in  musical  history  and  her  im- 
portance, before  and  after  her  marriage  and 
during  her  long  widowhood,   as  the  pianist  who 


74 


STANDARD    CATALOG 


Schumann,  Mme  Clara  Josephine— Continued 

led  the  musical  public  to  appreciate  Bach,  Bee- 
thoven, Schumann,  Chopin  and  Brahms.  The 
romance  of  her  marriage  is  told  in  detail  and 
many  glimpses  of  the  musical  and  literary 
world  of  her  time  given.  The  analyses  of 
Schumann's  compositions  are  of  value  to  the 
music  student.  List  of  Clara  Schumann's  pub- 
lished compositions,  and  of  those  of  Robert 
Schumann  for  keyed  instruments."  A.  L.  A. 
bkl. 

See  in  this  connection  Litzman's  "Clara  Schu- 
mann," 2v,   Macmillan,   $9.50 

Schumann,  Robert  Alexander 

Letters;  selected  and  ed.  by  Dr  Karl 
Storck;  tr.  by  Hannah  Bryant.  '07 
Dutton  $4  780.92 

"These  letters  have  decided  interest  and  lit- 
erary charm,  are  well  edited  and  translated  and 
have  special  value  for  students  of  music." 
A.   L.  A.  sup. 

Fuller-Maitland,  J.  A.  Schumann.  (Great 
musicians)    '95    Scribner  $1  780.92 

Chronologic  table  of  Robert  Schumann's  life 
and    works,    P137-46 

Scriabin,  Alexander 

Hull,  A.  E.  Great  Russian  tone-poet 
Scriabin.  (  Library  of  music  and  musi- 
cians) il  '16  Dutton  $1.50  780.92 

"Interesting  and  helpful  analyses  of  his  works, 
illustrated  by  thematic  notation,  disquisition  on 
his  musical  theories  and  an  account  of  the  man 
himself.  The  author  contends  that  'Scriabin 
has  brought  about  a  complete  renewal  of  the 
hearing  faculty  which  will  fertilize  not  only 
one  field,  but  the  whole  of  the  musical  art.'  " 
A.    L.    A.    bkl. 

Strauss,  Richard 

Finck,  H.  T.  Richard  Strauss,  the  man 
and  his  works,    il  '17  Little  $2.50 

780.92 

"A  carefully  prepared  biography  of  the  first 
great  realist  in  music  by  the  veteran  critic  of 
the  New  York  evening  post.  Gives  a  sketch  of 
Strauss'  life,  recounting  many  interesting  anec- 
dotes, but  the  greater  part  of  the  book  is  de- 
voted to  critical  discussion  of  his  more  im- 
portant   compositions."      Cleveland 

"Richard  Strauss,  seer  and  idealist,"  by 
Percy  Grainger,  pref.  pi  7-25;  Bibliography, 
P317-21 

Newman,  Ernest.  Richard  Strauss.  (Liv- 
ing masters  of  music)  il  '08  Lane  $1 

780.92 
_  "Satisfactory,    popular    survey  _  of    the    musi- 
cian's life   and   descriptions   of  his  compositions. 
The    first    biography    in     English."      A.    L.    A. 
sup. 

Tchaikovski,  Peter  Ilyitch 

Tchaikovsky,  Modeste.  Life  and  letters 
of  Peter  Ilich  Tchaikovsky;  tr.,  ed.  and 
arranged  from  the  Russian  by  Rosa 
Newmarch.  '06  Lane  $2.50  780.92 

Thomas,  Theodore 

Thomas,  Mrs  R.  F.  Memoirs  of  Theo- 
dore Thomas,    il    '11   Moffat  $3.50 

780.92 
"Valuable  contribution  to  the  annals  of  music 
as  well  as  a  sympathetic  and  most  satisfactory 
portrayal  by  his  widow,  of  America's  foremost 
musical  conductor,  whose  invincible  purpose  was 
the  musical  education  of  the  people.  Drawn 
from  intimate  personal  knowledge  and  all  other 
available  sources.  Twenty-eight  illustrations,  in- 
cluding portraits."      N.Y.    state  lib. 

"The  most  important,  the  most  interesting, 
the  most  instructive,  the  most  romantic  book 
ever  published  on  music  in  America,  brimful  of 
anecdotes  and  with  flashlights  on  music  in  nearly 
all  its  phases."   (Nation)   A.  L.  A.  sup. 


Wagner,  Richard 

My  life.  2v  '11   Dodd  $3.50  780.92 

"An  exceedingly  frank  autobiography  which 
covers  Wagner's  life  to  1864  only,  thus  con- 
taining nothing  concerning  his  last  nineteen  and 
most  famous  years."      Pratt  quarterly 

Henderson,  W.  J.     Richard  Wagner;  his 
life   and  his   dramas.    '01    Putnam  $2 

780.92 
Contains    analytic    account    of    music    dramas, 
with   themes,  sources  of  plots,   etc. 

Hueffer,      Francis.  Richard     Wagner. 

(Great   musicians)    '81    Scribner  $1 

780.92 
Author  a  recognized  English  authority.      Con- 
tains  list   of   Wagner's  published   works,   P108-12 

Newman,   Ernest.     Wagner  as   man    and 
artist,     il  '14  Dutton  $4  780.92 

"The  man;  The  artist  in  theory;  The  artist 
in  practice.  A  careful  study  of  the  details  of 
his  life,  assuming  knowledge  of  main  facts. 
What  distinguishes  it  is  the  fearless  intellectual- 
ity brought  to  bear  on  problems  of  his  life,  in 
place  of  the  sentimental  treatment  too  often 
given.  .  .  .  Wagner  the  artist  is  treated 
sympathetically,  with  more  understanding  than 
in  the  author's  earlier  'Study  of  Wagner.'  " 
A.   L.  A.  bkl. 

Wagner,       Richard,        and        Wesendonk, 

Mathilde   (Luckemeyer) 

Richard    Wagner    to     Mathilde     Wesen- 

donck;  tr.  by  W.  A.  Ellis.    '05  Scribner 

$4.50  780.92 

"Frau  Wesendonk  was  the  wife  of  a  wealthy 
friend  of  Wagner  who  built  and  placed  at  the 
disposal  of  the  composer  a  small  building  near 
his  own  villa  at  Zurich.  Here  Wagner  lived  for 
sixteen  months,  while  he  was  engaged  in  writ- 
ing his  'Tristan  and  Isolde'  and  during  this  time 
Frau  Wesendonk  was  his  intimate  friend  and 
confidante. 

'The  world  is  indebted  to  Mathilde  Wesen- 
donk for  two  great  achievements — she  inspired 
the  composer  of  'Tristan  and  Isolde'  and  she 
therefore  forced  the  composer  to  defer  the 
completion  of  the  'Ring  des  Nibelungen'  until 
his  powers  were  in  their  full  maturity.  This 
remarkable  collection  of  letters,  first  published 
after  the  death  of  [Frau  Wesendonk]  which 
took  place  in  1902,  is  another  fruit  of  their 
relationship.'  "  (Times  [London]  1905)  Pitts- 
burgh 

792    Actors 

Collective 

Izard,  Forrest 

Heroines    of    the    modern    stage,     il    '15 
Sturgis   &  Walton  $1.50  792 

"Brief,  readable,  informal  articles,  which  tell 
something  of  the  childhood  and  schooling,  and 
stage  career  of  Sarah  Bernhardt,  Helena  Mod- 
jeska,  Ellen  Terry,  Gabrielle  Rejane,  Eleonora 
Duse,  Ada  Rehan,  Mary  Anderson,  Mrs  Fiske, 
Julia  Marlowe  and  Maude  Adams.  A  final 
chapter  considers  a  number  of  the  younger 
American  actresses.  The  illustrations  are  from 
unusual  photographs.  Bibliography  (2p)." 
A.  L.  A.  bkl. 

Parker,  John 

(ed.)    Who's   who   in   the   theater.   3d   ed 
rev  '16   Small  $3  792 

"Fairly  detailed  biographies  of  persons  con- 
nected in  any  way  with  modern  drama,  includ- 
ing actors,  actresses,  dramatists,  composers,  crit- 
ics, managers,  scenic  artists,  historians  and 
biographers.  In  three  sections:  English,  colonial 
and  American  biographies;  Continental  biogra- 
phies; Miscellaneous  lists,  e.g.  genealogies  of 
famous  theatrical  families,  dramatic  critics, 
dramatic  and  musical   obituary,   etc."      Mudge 


BIOGRAPHY— Actors 


75 


Winter,  William 

Vagrant  memories;  being  further  recol- 
lections of  other  days,  il  '15  Doran  $3 

792 

Contents:  William  Warren;  Laura  Keene; 
Matilda  Heron;  Lester  Wallack;  J.  W.  Wallack, 
the  younger;  Mark  Smith;  Edwin  Adams;  H.J. 
Montague;  Edwin  Booth;  'Augustin  Daly;  Henry 
Irving;  Johnston  Forbes-Robertson;  E.  H. 
Sothern;  Julia  Marlowe;  The  theater  and  moral- 
ity . 

"In  'Vagrant  memories'  the  dean  of  American 
dramatic  critics  continues  his  recollections  of 
the  theater  and  its  people  begun  in  'Other  days.' 
The  author  gives  just  what  his  readers  want  to 
know:  the  facts  of  the  lives  and  work  of  the 
people  written  about,  their  place  in  the  art  of 
the  theater,  their  personal  characteristics,  the 
distinguishing  marks  of  their  style  and  the  il- 
luminating touches  of  anecdote  and  quotation 
possible  only  to  a  friend  and  co-worker." 
(Springfield    Republican)    Cleveland 

See  in  connection  with  this  the  author's 
"Wallet   of   time,"   2v,    1913    Moffat,    $10 

Individual 

Anderson,     Mary,      afterward      Mme     de 
Navarro 
A  few  memories.    '96  Harper  $2.50      792 

"Mary  Anderson  played  with  much  success 
such  parts  as  Juliet,  Perdita,  Galatea,  Rosalind, 
etc.  from  1875  to  1889,  when  she  retired  from 
the  stage.  'As  a  contribution  to  theatrical  lit- 
erature her  volume  is  of  very  small  importance, 
but  as  a  bit  of  autobiography  it  is  exceedingly 
interesting.  .  .  .  From  first  to  last  .  .  .  there 
is  not  one  note  of  affectation  or  insincerity.  .  . 
The  real  interest  and  charm  lie  in  the  story  of 
her  life  outside  the  theater  .  .  of  the  friend- 
ship of  many  of  the  most  distinguished  men  and 
women   of  the  day."      (Nation,   1896)   Pittsburgh 

Bernhardt,  Sarah 

Memories   of  my  life,  il  '07  Appleton  $4 

792 

"The  personal,  professional  and  social  recol- 
lections of  a  remarkable  woman  and  great  artist; 
versatile,  egotistic,  brilliant,  audacious  and  al- 
ways  interesting."      A.   L.   A.   sup. 

Booth,  Edwin 

Grossman,  Mrs  E.  B.,  ed.  Edwin  Booth; 
recollections  and  letters.  '94  Century 
$3  792 

"The  book  is  divided  into  three  parts.  The 
first  and  briefest  gives  us  the  recollections  of 
Booth's  daughter,  the  second  consists  of  his  let- 
ters to  her,  and  the  third,  of  his  letters  to  vari- 
ous friends,  1860-1892.  The  recollections  are 
far  less  of  events  than  of  characteristics,  and 
afford  little  knowledge  of  Booth's  life,  but  both 
the  recollections  and  the  letters  deepen  the  im- 
pression of  a  noble  and  lovable  personality  and 
bring  out  the  happy  relations  between  father  and 
daughter."     Pittsburgh 


Daly,  Augustin 

Daly,  J.  F.  Life  of  Augustin  Daly,  il  '17 
Macmillan  $4  792 

"Biography  of  a  great  manager  of  high  ideals 
who  sponsored  many  of  the  best  plays  of  his 
day,  whose  revivals  of  the  older  English  drama 
were  notable  for  their  brilliance  and  whose 
companies  were  of  an  even  excellence  uncom- 
mon in  the  days  when  the  star  system  was  still 
in  vogue.  Includes  many  interesting  anecdotes 
and  more  statistics,  and  forms  a  notable  chapter 
in  the  history  of  the  American  stage  from  1865 
to  1898,  when  Mr  Daly  died."     Cleveland 

Frohman,  Charles 

Marcosson,  I.  F.,  and  Frohman,  Daniel. 
Charles  Frohman:  manager  and  man. 
il   '16   Harper  $2.50  792 

Complete  chronological  list  of  the  Frohman 
productions,  P421-40 

"Life  of  the  theatrical  manager  who  for  so 
many  years  dominated  the  American  stage. 
Follows  his  career  from  his  early  struggles  to 
his  death  on  the  Lusitania.  Brimful  of  humor 
and  of  anecdotes  of  his  connections  with  the 
actors  and  actresses  who  became  stars  under 
him."       N.Y.    state    lib. 

Jefferson,  Joseph 

Autobiography.    '90  Century  $4  792 

"As  we  follow  the  adventures  of  the  actor, 
we  meet  with  quaint  characters,  we  hear  good 
stories,  we  learn  much  about  the  art  of  acting, 
we  have  many  portraits  of  prominent  actors  and 
actresses  of  the  past,  and  we  find  ourselves 
drawn  more  and  more  to  the  author  as  he 
stands  revealed  to  us  in  his  own  pages.  .  .  . 
Mr  Jefferson's  style  is  easy  and  flowing;  it  is 
that  of  a  man  who  has  kept  good  company  all 
his  life,  who  has  spoken  every  night  the  chosen 
words  of  the  dramatists  from  Shakespeare  to 
Sheridan.  It  has  the  cadence  and  the  color  of 
good  dramatic  writing,  with  a  charm  which  seems 
to  be  his  own."  (Condensed  from  Nation, 
1890)    Pittsburgh 

Wilson,  Francis.  Joseph  Jefferson;  rem- 
iniscences of  a  fellow  player,  il  '06 
Scribner  $2  792 

"Affectionate  and  minute,  if  somewhat  un- 
discriminating  appreciation  of  Jefferson  as  actor, 
author  and  man.  Interesting  chapter  on  the 
tour  of  the  all-star  cast  of  'The  rivals'  of  which 
Jefferson  and  Wilson  were  members."  (N.Y. 
state   lib.)   A.    L.   A.   sup. 

Sothern,  Edward   Hugh 

Melancholy  tale  of  "Me";  my  remem- 
brances, il  new  popular  ed  '18  Scrib- 
ner $2  792 

"Whimsical,  random  recollections  of  the 
famous  actor  who  when  a  little  boy  called  him- 
self 'Me.'  Largely  reminiscent  of  author's 
childhood  but  includes  incidents  of  his  later 
career.  Pictures  with  sympathy  and  skill  some 
of  the  leading  actors  of  the  last  century.  Por- 
tions appeared  in  Scribner's  magazine.  Fully 
illustrated."      N.Y.    state   lib. 


Author  Index 


This  index  includes  only  the  names  of  the  authors  of  all  the  collective  biographies  (920-928,  with 
some  in  the  700's),  and  of  such  biographies  of  individuals  as  are  classed  in  232  and  in  the  700's.  Most  of 
the  lives  of  individuals  are  classed  in  92  and  arranged  alphabetically  under  the  names  of  the  subjects  of 
the   biographies,    with   no   main   entry   under   the   author,  either  in  the  body  of  the  Catalog  or  in  this  index. 


Pace 

Abbot,  W.  J.    Notable  women  in  history    5 
Adams,  E.  C,  and  Foster,  W.  D.  Heroines 
of  modern  progress  5 

Adams,    O.    F.      Dictionary    of     American 
authors  10 

Ady,  J.  C.    Life  and  art  of  Sandro  Botticelli 

70 
Raphael  70 

Sandro  Botticelli  70 

Allibone,  S.  A.     Critical  dictionary  10 

Anderson,  F.  L.     Man  of  Nazareth  66 

Anderson,  M.     Few  memories  75 

Armstrong,  W.  Gainsborough  69 

Sir  Joshua  Reynolds  69 

Bagehot,  W.     Biographical  studies  7 

Baker,  T.     Biographical  dictionary  of  musi- 
cians 71 
Ball,  R.  S.     Great  astronomers  9 
Baring-Gould,  S.     Lives  of  the  saints          6 
Baughan,  E.  A.     Ignaz  Jan  Paderewski      73 
Bell,  M.     Sir  Edward  Burne-Jones            69 
Benson,  A.  C.    Dante  Gabriel  Rossetti      69 
Leaves  of  the  tree  1 
Bensusan,  S.  L.     Reynolds                           69 
Titian                                                               70 
Velasquez                                                     71 
Berlioz,  L.  H.    Life                                       72 
Bernhardt,  S.     Memories  of  my  life         75 
Birkhead,  A.    Heroes  of  modern  Europe      1 
Boase,  F.     Modern  English  biography        4 
Bolton,    S.     K.      Famous    leaders     among 
men  1 
Famous  leaders  among  women                  5 
Famous  voyagers  and  explorers                7 
Lives  of  girls  who  became  famous            6 
Lives  of  poor  boys  who  became  famous   1 
Bonstelle,   J.,   and    DeForest,    M.,    comps. 
Little  women  letters                                     6 
Booth,  W.  S.,  ed.     Wonderful   escapes  by 
Americans  1 
Bradford,  G.,  jr.     Confederate  portraits      7 
Portraits  of  women                                        6 
Union  portraits                                               7 
Brailsford,  H.  N.     Shelley                           10 
Brinton,  S.     Correggio                                   70 
Brown,  G.  B.     Rembrandt                             71 
Bryan,   M.     Bryan's  dictionary   of  painters 
and  engravers                                          67 
Bryce,  J.  B.    Studies  in  contemporary  biog- 
raphy 1 
Buckley,  R.  J.     Sir  Edward  Elgar               72 
Bullard,   F.    L.     Famous   war   correspond- 
ents 1 
Burne-Jones,  G.  M.     Memorials  of  Edward 
Burne-Jones                                             69 
Burr,  A.  R.     Autobiography  1 
Burton,  M.  E.     Comrades  in  service  1 
Notable  women  in  modern  China            6 


Page 

Butler,  A.    Lives  of  the  saints  6 

Caffin,  C.  H.  American  masters  of  paint- 
ing 68 
Calvert,  A.  F.  Murillo  71 
Cary,  E.  L.  The  Rossettis  69 
Cellini,  B.    Life                                              67 

Memoirs  67 

Century  cyclopedia  of  names  4 

Chubb,  E.  W.     Sketches  of  great  painters 

68 
Cladel,  J.,  comp.  Rodin  67 

Clodd,  E.     Memories  1 

Cortissoz,  R.    Augustus  Saint-Gaudens      67 

John  La  Farge  68 

Cousin,  J.  W.  Short  biographical  diction- 
ary 10 
Crastre,  F.  Bastien-Lepage  69 
Crook,  W.  H.  Thru  five  administrations  7 
Cruttwell,  M.  Donatello  70 
Cust,  L.  H.  Van  Dyck  71 
Daly,  J.  F.  Life  of  Augustin  Daly  75 
Davies,  G.  S.  Frans  Hals  71 
Davis,  R.  H.  Real  soldiers  of  fortune  7 
Dictionary  of  national  biography  4 
Dodd,  W.  E.  Statesmen  of  the  old  South  7 
Dole,  N.  H.  Famous  composers  71 
Downes,  W.  H.  Life  and  works  of  Wins- 
low  Homer  68 
Dunn,  W.  H.  English  biography  1 
Edersheim,  A.  Life  and  times  of  Jesus  66 
Elias,  E.  L.     In  Georgian  times  1 

In  Victorian  times  2 

Eliot,  C.  W.     Four  American  leaders  2 

Emerson,  E.  W.  Early  years  of  the  Satur- 
day club  10 
Erskine,  J.  Leading  American  novelists  10 
Escott,  T.  H.  S.  Great  Victorians  2 
Farrar,  F.  W.     Life  of  Christ                       66 

Seekers  after  God  6 

Fay,  A.    Music-study  in  Germany  72 

Field,  J.  T.  Yesterdays  with  authors  10 
Finck,  H.  T.     Grieg  and  his  music  73 

Richard  Strauss  74 

Fitchett,  W.  H.  Nelson  and  his  captains  7 
Forbes,  B.  C.  Men  who  are  making  Amer- 
ica 7 
Foster,  W.  D.,  ed.  Heroines  of  modern  re- 
ligion 6 
Fouard,  C.  H.  Christ  66 
Frank,  M.  M.    Great  authors  in  their  youth 

10 
Frost,  H.  F.     Schubert  73 

Frothingham,  J.  P.     Sea  fighters  7 

Fuller-Maitland,  J.  A.     Brahms  72 

Schumann  74 

Garnett,  E.  Hogarth  69 

Geikie,  J.  C.  Life  and  words  of  Christ  66 
Gibson,  C.  R.    Heroes  of  science  9 


78 


STANDARD    CATALOG 


Page 

Gilbert,  A.     More  than  conquerors  2 

Gilbert,  G.  H.    Jesus  66 

Jesus  for  the  men  of  today  66 

Gilman,  L.     Edward  MacDowell  73 

Glover,  T.   R.     Jesus  of  history  66 

Gosse,  E.  W.  Portraits  and  sketches  10 
Greely,  A.  W.  Explorers  and  travelers  7 
Gronau,  G.     Titian  and  his  school  70 

Grossman,  E.  B.,  ed.     Edwin  Booth  75 

Guinness,  H.     Andrea  del  Sarto  70 

Hadow,  W.   H.     Mozart  73 

Studies  in  modern  music  71 

Haydon,  A.  L.,  comp.  Book  of  the  V.  C.  7 
Henderson,  W.  J.     Richard  Wagner  74 

Hensel,  S.     Mendelssohn  family  73 

Hervey,  A.     Franz  Liszt  73 

Higginson,  T.  W.     Carlyle's  laugh  10 

Contemporaries  2 

Hind,  C.  L.    Augustus  Saint-Gaudens        68 

Hodges,   G.     Saints  and   heroes   since    the 

middle  ages  6 

Saints  and  heroes  to  the  end  of  the  mid- 
dle ages  6 
Hoeber,  A.  Barbizon  painters  69 
Hopkinson,  L.  W.  Greek  leaders  7 
Howard,  K.  Confessions  of  an  opera 
singer  73 
Hubert,  P.  G,  jr.  Inventors  9 
Hueffer,  F.  Richard  Wagner  74 
Hueffer,  F.  M.     Memories  and  impressions 

69 
Hughes,  R.  Music  lovers'  encyclopedia  71 
Hull,  A.  E.  Great  Russian  tone-poet 
Scriabin  74 

Huneker,  J.     Chopin  72 

Hutton,  L.     Talks  in  a  library  2 

Hyamson,  A.  M.     Dictionary    of  universal 

biography  4 

lies,  G.     Leading  American  inventors  9 

Imbert  de  Saint-Amand,  A.  L.  Women  of 
the  Valois  court  6 

Inness,  G,  jr.  Life,  art  and  letters  of 
George  Inness  68 

International  who's  who  in  music  71 

Izard,  F.  Heroines  of  the  modern  stage  74 
Jacobus  de  Voragine.  Golden  legend  6 
James,  G.  W.     Heroes  of  California  2 

Jameson,  A.  B.  Memoirs  of  the  early 
Italian  painters  70 

Jefferson,  J.     Autobiography  75 

Johnson,  S.     Six  chief  lives  10 

Johnston,  C.  H.  L.  Famous  cavalry  lead- 
ers 8 

Famous  discoverers  and  explorers  of 
'  America  8 

Famous  frontiersmen  and  heroes  of  the 
border  8 

Famous  scouts  8 

Johnston,  J.  T.  M.    World  patriots  8 

Johnston,  R.  M.  Leading  American  sol- 
diers 8 
Kernahan,  C.  In  good  company  10 
Kellogg,  C.  L.  Memoirs  73 
Kumm,  H.  K.  W.  African  missionary 
heroes  and  heroines  7 
La  Farge,  J.  Great  masters  68 
Lahee,  H.  C.     Famous  pianists                    71 

Famous   singers  71 


Page 

Famous  violinists  71 

Grand  opera  singers  71 

Larned,  J.  N.  Study  of  greatness  in  men  8 
Laut,  A.  C.  Pathfinders  of  the  West  8 
Lee,  E.  Wives  of  the  prime  ministers  6 
Lee,  S.  Great  Englishmen  of  the  sixteenth 
century  10 

Lee,  S.  L.     Principles  of  biography  1 

Lehmann,  L.     My  path  thru  life  73 

Leupp,  F.  E.     National  miniatures  2 

Liebich,  L.     Claude-Achille  Debussy  72 

Lossing,  B.  J.     Two  spies  8 

Low,  W.  H.     Chronicle  of  friendships        68 
McCarthy,  J.     British  political  portraits      8 
Portraits  of  the  'sixties  2 

McSpadden,    J.     W.     Famous     painters     of 
America  68 

Marcosson,  I.  F.,  and  Frohman,  D.     Charles 
Frohman  75 

Marillier,  H.  C.  Dante  Gabriel  Rossetti  69 
Markino,  Y.  Japanese  artist  in  London  71 
Martin,  A.  W.     Life  of  Jesus  66 

Mason,  D.  G.    Contemporary  composers    71 
From  Grieg  to  Brahms  71 

Romantic  composers  71 

— and   Mason,   M.   L.     Great  modern  com- 
posers 72 
Mason,  W.    Memories  of  a  musical  life      73 
Mauclair,  C.    Auguste  Rodin                         67 
French    impressionists  69 
May,  F.    Girlhood  of  Clara  Schumann      73 
Men  and  women  of  America  4 
Miller,  L.  H.    Our  knowledge  of  Christ    66 
Montagu-Nathan,   M.     Contemporary   Rus- 
sian composers                                          72 
Glinka                                                              72 
Moore,  T.  S.    Albert  Durer                           69 
Moran,  T.  F.     American  presidents  8 
Morgan,  H.  J.     Canadian  men  and  women 
of  the  time                                                  4 
Morris,  C.    Heroes  of  discovery  in  America 

8 

Heroes  of  progress  in  America  2 

Heroes  of  the  army  in  America  8 

Heroes  of  the  navy  in  America  8 

Motley,  J.  L.     Life  and  death  of  John    of 

Barneveld  7 

National  cyclopedia  of  American  biography 

4 

Conspectus  4 

Newman,  E.     Richard  Strauss  74 

Wagner  as  man  and  artist  74 

Nohl,  L.     Life  of  Mozart  73 

Oliphant,  M.  O.    Makers  of  Florence  2 

Oman,  C.     Seven  Roman  statesmen  8 

Osborn,  E.  B.     New  Elizabethans  2 

Parker,  J.,  ed.    Who's  who  in  the  theater  74 

Parkman,  M.  R.     Fighters  for  peace  9 

Heroes  of  today  3 

Heroines  of  service  6 

Parry,  C.  H.  H.    Johann  Sebastian  Bach   72 

Parry,  D.  H.     Victoria  Cross  9 

Parton,  J.     Captains  of  industry  9 

Pennell,    E.   R.    and    Pennell,   J.      Life     of 

James  McNeill  Whistler  68 

Perkins,  F.  M.  Giotto  70 

Posonby,    A.,     and     Ponsonby,     D.     Rebels 

and  reformers  3 


BIOGRAPHY— Author  Index 


79 


Page 

Poole,  R.  L.     Sebastian  Bach  72 

Preev,  Z.  N.     Russian  revolution  and  who's 
who  in  Russia  4 

Qui  etes-vous?  5 

Quiller-Couch,  A.  T.    Roll  call  of  honor    3 
Radziwill,  C.  R.     Sovereigns  and  statesmen 
of    Europe  9 

Raymond,  E.  T.  Uncensored  celebrities  9 
Renan,  E.     Life  of  Jesus  66 

Rockstro,  W.  S.       Mendelssohn  73 

Rolland,  R.     Beethoven  72 

Handel  73 

Michelangelo  70 

Roof,  K.  M.     Life  and  art  of  William  Mer- 
ritt   Chase  68 

Rowbotham,  F.  J.     Story-lives  of  our  great 
artists  69 

Rudall,  H.  A.     Beethoven  72 

Russell,  G.  W.  E.  Portraits  of  the  'seven- 
ties 3 
Saint-Gaudens,  A.  Reminiscences  67 
Sainte-Beuve,  C.  A.  Portraits  of  the  seven- 
teenth century  3 
Sanday,  W.     Outlines  of  the  life  of  Christ 

66 
Schevill,  F.     Karl  Bitter  67 

Schumann,  R.  A.    Letters  74 

Seeley,  J.  R.     Ecce  homo  67 

Sensier,  A.     Jean-Francois  Millet  70 

Sharp,  R.  F.     Makers  of  music  72 

Shedd,  J.   A.     Famus  sculptors  and  sculp- 
r  ture  67 

Siren,  O.     Leonardo  da  Vinci  70 

Slattery,  C.  L.     Master  of  the  world        67 
Slosson,  E.  E.     Major  prophets  of  today    3 
Six  major  prophets  3 

Smiles,  S.     Lives  of  the  engineers  9 

Smith,   W.      Classical   dictionary   of   Greek 
and  Roman  biography  5 

Somerville,  E.  A.  O.,  and  Martin,  V.     Irish 
memories  10 

Sothern,  E.  H.  Melancholy  tale  of  "Me"  75 
Spofford,  H.  E.  Little  book  of  friends  6 
Stalker,  J.    Life  of  Jesus  Christ  67 

Stanton,    T.,   ed.       Reminiscences   of   Rosa 
Bonheur  70 

Stephen,  L.  Studies  of  a  biographer  10 
Stevenson,  R.  A.  M.     Velasquez  71 

Stokes,  H.     Francisco  Goya  70 

Strachey,  H.     Raphael  70 

Strachey,  L.     Eminent  Victorians  3 

Streatfield,  R.  A.     Handel  73 


Page 

Strickland,    A.       Lives     of   the     queens    of 
England  9 

Symonds,  J.  A.    Life  of  Michelangelo        70 
Symons,  A.    Figures  of  several  centuries   11 
Tchaikovsky,  M.     Life  and  letters  of  Peter 
Ilich  Tchaikovsky  74 

Thayer,  W.  R.     Throne-makers  3 

Thomas,  J.  Universal  pronouncing  diction- 
ary of  biography  and  mythology  5 
Thomas,  R.  F.  Memoirs  of  Theodore 
Thomas  74 
Thompson,  V.  Life  of  Ethelbert  Nevin  73 
Upton,  G.  P.    Standard  musical  biographies 

72 

Vasari,   G     Lives  of  seventy  of  the   most 

eminent  painters  67 

Vedder,  H.  C.     American  writers  of  today 

11 
Vincent,  H.  L.     American  literary  masters 

11 
Dandies  and  men  of  letters  11 

Wagner,  R.     My  Life  74 

— and  Wesendonk,  M.     Richard  Wagner  to 
Mathilde   Wesendonck  74 

Walker,   W.     Great   men   of   the    Christian 
church  7 

Walton,  I.     Lives  of  Dr  John  Donne,    Sir 
Henry    Wotton,    Sir    Richard    Hooker, 
George  Herbert  and  Dr  Robert  Sander- 
son 3 
Waters,    C.   E.     Painters,   sculptors,   archi- 
tects, engravers  and  their  works          67 
—and    Hutton,    L.      Artists    of    the    19th 
century                                                      67 
Webb,    M.    G.,    and     Webb,    E.    L.,    eds. 
Famous  living  Americans                        3 
Wer  ist's?                                                             5 
White,  A.  D.    Seven  great  statesmen          9 
Who's  who  in  America                                    5 
Who's  who  in  New  England                          5 
Who's  who  in  New  York  city  and  state      5 
Who's  who  1918                                               5 
Who's  who  of  the  colored  race                     5 
Who's  who  yearbook                                       5 
Wilson,  F.     Joseph  Jefferson                   •     75 
Wilson,  J.  G,  ed.    Presidents  of  the  United 
States                                                             9 
Winter,  W.    Vagrant  memories                   75 
Wolf,  S.     Presidents  I  have  known            9 
Woman's  who's   who  of  America                  6 
Yale  university.     Obituary  record                5 
Yonge,   C.   M.   Book  of  golden   deeds        3 


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